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After years of trying to make either work like I want, I discovered tiling window managers like xmonad and i3 and I haven't looked back, as I've gained so much
by danans 6y ago
After years of trying to make either work like I want, I discovered tiling window managers like xmonad and i3 and I haven't looked back, as I've gained so much efficiency in my work tasks.
I still use a traditional desktop environment for most browser and app tasks, but even there I end up tiling or maximizing the windows using keyboard shortcuts. Dragging overlapping windows sucks and I never want to do it again.
- bmn__ 6y agoDon't look back, look forward. You don't need to abandon KDE over the perceived lack of a single feature. It's simply not enabled by default because tiling is esoteric. Run `systemsettings5 kcm_keys` → KWin and (re)assign keys to the window manager actions you need. If that's not sufficient, then run `systemsettings5 kwinscripts` → Get New Scripts… → filter "tiling".
- danans 6y ago> Don't look back, look forward. You don't need to abandon KDE over the perceived lack of a single feature. It's not a single feature, tiling window managers are an entirely different paradigm that fit my programming workflows so much better. The constraints they impose are actually a good thing for me. I did say that I use a traditional desktop environment for tasks that are not driven by a text-based environment, although in a way that completely hides all desktop environment provided screen widgets, rendering the differences between KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc moot. I handle window switching with things like Alt-Tab, which pretty much work the same in every environment. At some point if I switch to KDE, I'll definitely pick up your suggestions though!