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Why a tiling wm instead of tmux? The only thing I want to tile is my terminal anyways -- tiled GUIs generally don't work well and alt-tabbing through them is a

Why a tiling wm instead of tmux? The only thing I want to tile is my terminal anyways -- tiled GUIs generally don't work well and alt-tabbing through them is a better UX.

rimunroe 6y ago
You probably answered your own question there. They might want to tile things other than a terminal. I used to use Ion3 on a tiny Fujitsu Lifebook P1510D to divide the screen into quadrants containing things like a terminal (mostly used for IRC), Pidgin, a browser, and whatever videos I might be watching.
- streb-lo 6y ago
  As soon as you are tiling mouse-driven GUIs your having to do more work to traverse your screen with the mouse vs a stacking wm where your stacked GUIs can be flipped through with keyboard shortcuts. I guess it makes sense if you have a bunch of apps you're predominantly reading from instead of interacting with but in my experience those are predominantly terminal UIs anyways.
- akho 6y ago
  Quadrants with the same stuff are easy to do in Windows (with Win+arrows). The tricky part is in various autolayouts &c. But that is also where usefulness diminishes for non-terminal stuff. GUI apps usually expect stacking.
larntz 6y ago
Why not? I use a tiling wm and I love it. I'm able to make my desktop act exactly the way I want it to act. I don't appreciate my windows being rambunctious. If I'm on a machine without a tiling wm I generally using everything maximized and alt-tab like you say. But that's still usually an extra click after opening an application. I also love tmux, but I have a coworker that doesn't see the point. So, having options is nice. I want to be able to work the way I want. I also want you and my coworker to be able to work your way.
pxc 6y ago
I do pretty much everything in tmux and Emacs and sometimes ask myself ‘why not a tiling WM instead of tmux’? I've never really given it a fair shot.
- streb-lo 6y ago
  I guess it depends on your setup but being able to attach to an existing tmux session from another machine is something a tiling wm won't be able to offer.

Why a tiling wm instead of tmux? The only thing I want to tile is my terminal anyways -- tiled GUIs generally don't work well and alt-tabbing through them is a better UX.

rimunroe 6y ago

You probably answered your own question there. They might want to tile things other than a terminal. I used to use Ion3 on a tiny Fujitsu Lifebook P1510D to divide the screen into quadrants containing things like a terminal (mostly used for IRC), Pidgin, a browser, and whatever videos I might be watching.

streb-lo 6y ago
As soon as you are tiling mouse-driven GUIs your having to do more work to traverse your screen with the mouse vs a stacking wm where your stacked GUIs can be flipped through with keyboard shortcuts. I guess it makes sense if you have a bunch of apps you're predominantly reading from instead of interacting with but in my experience those are predominantly terminal UIs anyways.
akho 6y ago
Quadrants with the same stuff are easy to do in Windows (with Win+arrows). The tricky part is in various autolayouts &c. But that is also where usefulness diminishes for non-terminal stuff. GUI apps usually expect stacking.

larntz 6y ago

Why not? I use a tiling wm and I love it. I'm able to make my desktop act exactly the way I want it to act. I don't appreciate my windows being rambunctious. If I'm on a machine without a tiling wm I generally using everything maximized and alt-tab like you say. But that's still usually an extra click after opening an application. I also love tmux, but I have a coworker that doesn't see the point. So, having options is nice. I want to be able to work the way I want. I also want you and my coworker to be able to work your way.

pxc 6y ago

I do pretty much everything in tmux and Emacs and sometimes ask myself ‘why not a tiling WM instead of tmux’? I've never really given it a fair shot.

streb-lo 6y ago
I guess it depends on your setup but being able to attach to an existing tmux session from another machine is something a tiling wm won't be able to offer.