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Can two windows overlap? Or are they just opened full-screen or inside a tile side-by-side? If not, then I don't like that very much. For example the calculato
by scoutt 6y ago
Can two windows overlap? Or are they just opened full-screen or inside a tile side-by-side?
If not, then I don't like that very much. For example the calculator: I don't want it to take 1/3 or 1/4 of the screen. It's like going back into a 35 years ago pre DESQview era.
Edit: nevermind. "In Material Shell windows are tiled. These means they are organised in a predictable way in which they do not overlap".
I guess I like my windows to be not predictable, whatever that means.
- approxim8ion 6y agoI can't speak about Material Shell, but on dedicated tiling WMs, you get to select a subset of apps that you want to always open in floating mode to accommodate the use case you are describing. Nonetheless, I find myself not using that at all, since in most cases the tiled view allows for optimum use of screen real-estate in my opinion. If I can't see the entirety of a window it's kind of useless to me, so i'd prefer it be on a different workspace. But of course, floating one window like your calculator while your browser and RSS feed reader are tiled on the desktop is entirely possible and probably quite common. I do, however, use a popup rofi window with a custom script as a calculator, so that does indeed float near the top of my screen.
- michaelmrose 6y agoIn i3 you can perform operations based on window criteria for example if calculator don't tile with for_window. KDE has window rules, Linux in general has devilspie2. If it doesn't have this feature it probably should.