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I never understood why people struggle with window management, but then again, my primary setup is to use a tiling window manager where I either keep a single f

I never understood why people struggle with window management, but then again, my primary setup is to use a tiling window manager where I either keep a single full screen window in a workspace or a very simple side by side split, or 1x2 split or 2x2 split as appropriate. Possibly one hovering window that I call up/hide on demand. And then I just keyboard shortcut between workspaces. For multi monitor, I dedicate some workspaces to each monitor (and occasionally move windows between then if needed, but it’s not so often). It’s easy to switch between workspaces because I dedicate them to specific tasks, eg 0 is messaging applications, 6 is my IDE, 7 is browser I use for development (dev tools open tiled beside the browser), 8 is terminals etc More monitors just mean some workspaces are switched between by moving my head instead of switching what’s on screen. For some tasks it’s easier for others it’s not. I do find a larger higher resolution monitor more useful than having two or three small ones, especially for my IDE where I have splits and such. I use a 34” 1440p currently but would love to go larger/higher resolution (but 4K at those sizes is out of my budget right now)

zimpenfish 6y ago
> I either keep a single full screen window Pretty much what I do with my single screen. Probably down to being a contractor for a long time and never knowing from one day to the next if I even had a desk to sit at, never mind a monitor or two.
jon-wood 6y ago
Since moving to Mac OS because of work I desperately miss XMonad, where workspaces and screens are separate concepts, and you can ask any screen to show any workspace and it’ll just resize appropriately.
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  There are tiling managers for OSX. None of them work as well as the ones for Linux but they're better than fumbling with a bunch of mousing around. Maybe try Divvy or Tiles.
wogong 6y ago
Tiling window manager like i3 in multiple monitors environment is not that convenient as I thought. Most of the time I just use one monitor. Switching workspace between multiple monitors confuses me.
- dkersten 6y ago
  I still like having multiple monitors even with i3, but a single large monitor is definitely more useful to me than multiple small ones, so given the choice I would choose a larger primary monitor before choosing a second or third monitor.

zimpenfish 6y ago

> I either keep a single full screen window Pretty much what I do with my single screen. Probably down to being a contractor for a long time and never knowing from one day to the next if I even had a desk to sit at, never mind a monitor or two.

jon-wood 6y ago

Since moving to Mac OS because of work I desperately miss XMonad, where workspaces and screens are separate concepts, and you can ask any screen to show any workspace and it’ll just resize appropriately.

stjohnswarts 6y ago
There are tiling managers for OSX. None of them work as well as the ones for Linux but they're better than fumbling with a bunch of mousing around. Maybe try Divvy or Tiles.

wogong 6y ago

Tiling window manager like i3 in multiple monitors environment is not that convenient as I thought. Most of the time I just use one monitor. Switching workspace between multiple monitors confuses me.

dkersten 6y ago
I still like having multiple monitors even with i3, but a single large monitor is definitely more useful to me than multiple small ones, so given the choice I would choose a larger primary monitor before choosing a second or third monitor.