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I used to love tiling, but now I use lots of applications that are heavy-weight and graphical, and it seems more fitting to arrange the windows in such a way th

I used to love tiling, but now I use lots of applications that are heavy-weight and graphical, and it seems more fitting to arrange the windows in such a way that strategic corners "peek out" behind the front-most application. For example, I run my IDE in full screen and the console/log is in the bottom part of the window. My browser partially covers the IDE by occupying the right 75% of the screen. Then I can follow the console/log of the IDE. Even though only the beginning of each line is visible, that's enough to tell me when it is time to switch back to the IDE. If I were to make the IDE window smaller, the console/log portion of it would be too tiny to see anything. If the text editor has no side bars (such as a directory tree), then it makes sense to have a full-height text editor on the left and maybe to half-height terminals on the right. But then I think that maybe some IDEs allow to pop out the console/log piece into a separate window, and perhaps that could work nicely with a tiling arrangement. I haven't tried. Thoughts?

napsterbr 6y ago
> Thoughts? Looks like a side monitor will work wonders for you. I have a setup with 3 monitors: My main 4k monitor is used for coding only. I can have 5 open buffers, side by side, with close to 120 lines being displayed in each one of them. I have a side monitor open with a terminal which shows me the logs of the running application, plus I can easily type any additional command there. On the other monitor I have the browser open, usually with the documentation or stack overflow tab. When I'm doing web development I have one monitor for the web app and another one for devtools. It's amazing. No more fighting with screen space. I highly recommend it.
- adkadskhj 6y ago
  It's funny, i have three monitors and i still do what the GP mentioned. My side monitor is almost entirely a bunch of large-designed (aka big gutters/etc) GUI focused applications. Slack, etc. And i arrange the "peek outs" (as GP called them) by what makes sense to see about that window all the time. It works out really, really well and i'm super interested in finding a way to make that work with i3.
__jem 6y ago
Personally, I would just tile them vertically with the terminal taking up the bottom 10 or 5%, but you can also make certain windows floating with i3, which may be another solution.

napsterbr 6y ago

> Thoughts? Looks like a side monitor will work wonders for you. I have a setup with 3 monitors: My main 4k monitor is used for coding only. I can have 5 open buffers, side by side, with close to 120 lines being displayed in each one of them. I have a side monitor open with a terminal which shows me the logs of the running application, plus I can easily type any additional command there. On the other monitor I have the browser open, usually with the documentation or stack overflow tab. When I'm doing web development I have one monitor for the web app and another one for devtools. It's amazing. No more fighting with screen space. I highly recommend it.

adkadskhj 6y ago
It's funny, i have three monitors and i still do what the GP mentioned. My side monitor is almost entirely a bunch of large-designed (aka big gutters/etc) GUI focused applications. Slack, etc. And i arrange the "peek outs" (as GP called them) by what makes sense to see about that window all the time. It works out really, really well and i'm super interested in finding a way to make that work with i3.

__jem 6y ago

Personally, I would just tile them vertically with the terminal taking up the bottom 10 or 5%, but you can also make certain windows floating with i3, which may be another solution.