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I do think it comes down to personal preferences a lot. I've been tiling-only (save for a couple of secondary things) for over a decade and it's by far the most
by 3np 6y ago
I do think it comes down to personal preferences a lot. I've been tiling-only (save for a couple of secondary things) for over a decade and it's by far the most productive to me. Always having 100% screen used, no windows overlapping (apart from things like file dialogs, alerts and my "quake console"), and never having to touch the mouse for navigating/repositioning is great.
It works great both on a single laptop, and with 3 external monitors (of which one generally has a single workspace hardcoded). I fully utilize all 9/10 workspaces most days.
The only time it doesn't fit great is with e.g. GIMP that has several small windows for toolboxes and stuff - one can still target particular windows to be floating (either keybind at runtime or with static config targeting window names/classes/whatnot).
There's no way I'm switching away from Xmonad for my main workstation - but you do you!
- pmoriarty 6y ago"The only time it doesn't fit great is with e.g. GIMP that has several small windows for toolboxes and stuff" You could try running GIMP in single-window mode (via GIMP's menu option: Windows -> Single-Window Mode). It doesn't get rid of every little window GIMP has, as it'll still pop up windows for saving files, for example, but it's much better than multi-window mode, if you don't want to bother with lots of little windows.
- 3np 6y agoDidn't know that, thanks!
- cycomanic 6y agoThanks so much! Didn't know that there was now a single window mode.
- simlevesque 6y agoYou mean, the Photoshop mode.
- cycomanic 6y agoYes GIMP is the one application, that really works poorly under tiling window managers. I've had a setup previously that would automatically layout the different windows (I think that was when I was still using awesomewm), but that also worked poorly. Has anyone found a way to work well with GIMP in a tiling WM?
- 3np 6y agosibling comment got us covered!