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With ultrawide displays we need an update of this paradigm. Maybe we need to introduce the concept of areas on a display that partially take over the role of a

by dm319 5y ago

With ultrawide displays we need an update of this paradigm. Maybe we need to introduce the concept of areas on a display that partially take over the role of a physical screen. For starters I have just adjusted my MATE desktop to vertically maximise the window on double clicking the titlebar.

kroltan 5y ago
I use Windows, and there's a third-party application called WindowGrid which is pretty cool to use. It splits your screen space into a configurably dense grid (I use it at 16x9 cells, for example, so they're roughly square), and you can position windows on it using mouse gestures. Start dragging a window, move your mouse to where you want one of the corners to be, hold right click, and drag it where you want it to fit to. It's basically a manual tiling WM, but it's quite useful. Here's a tiny example of the usage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ziWVGyjwdw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ziWVGyjwdw
captainmuon 5y ago
Check out the Windows 10 PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys With it you can hold Shift when moving a window, and the window will snap to a predefined grid. There are also other nice tools, like a Color picker when you press Win+C.
- adamrezich 5y ago
  this changed my life with my three-monitor setup (1 portrait, 2 landscape) at work when I discovered it a few months ago! I can't imagine going back to life without it now, it's so useful.
jeroenhd 5y ago
On Linux there are a whole bunch of tiling window managers that do this. i3 is probably the most famous one. I use Pop_OS shell on Manjaro to combine GNOME and tiled windows (with sadly very limited customizability on window positioning) which works quite well; it's tiling windows without the need to remember a billion system specific shortcuts. On Windows you now have FancyZones, part of the Windows power pack thing Microsoft provides on Github, which allows you to draw areas you can snap windows into. Windows 11 even has some common window layouts built right in. More traditional Linux desktops (like MATE) will probably try to avoid this paradigm, as they're more about sticking to what works than experimenting with new stuff. However, I think I see a trend where some sort of tiling is becoming part of more and more desktop environments.
nguyenkien 5y ago
"For starters I have just adjusted my MATE desktop to vertically maximise the window on double clicking the titlebar.For starters I have just adjusted my MATE desktop to vertically maximise the window on double clicking the titlebar." On Windows, you can double click at top/bottom edge of window to vertically maximize

by dm319 5y ago

kroltan 5y ago

I use Windows, and there's a third-party application called WindowGrid which is pretty cool to use. It splits your screen space into a configurably dense grid (I use it at 16x9 cells, for example, so they're roughly square), and you can position windows on it using mouse gestures. Start dragging a window, move your mouse to where you want one of the corners to be, hold right click, and drag it where you want it to fit to. It's basically a manual tiling WM, but it's quite useful. Here's a tiny example of the usage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ziWVGyjwdw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ziWVGyjwdw

captainmuon 5y ago

Check out the Windows 10 PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys With it you can hold Shift when moving a window, and the window will snap to a predefined grid. There are also other nice tools, like a Color picker when you press Win+C.

adamrezich 5y ago
this changed my life with my three-monitor setup (1 portrait, 2 landscape) at work when I discovered it a few months ago! I can't imagine going back to life without it now, it's so useful.

jeroenhd 5y ago

On Linux there are a whole bunch of tiling window managers that do this. i3 is probably the most famous one. I use Pop_OS shell on Manjaro to combine GNOME and tiled windows (with sadly very limited customizability on window positioning) which works quite well; it's tiling windows without the need to remember a billion system specific shortcuts. On Windows you now have FancyZones, part of the Windows power pack thing Microsoft provides on Github, which allows you to draw areas you can snap windows into. Windows 11 even has some common window layouts built right in. More traditional Linux desktops (like MATE) will probably try to avoid this paradigm, as they're more about sticking to what works than experimenting with new stuff. However, I think I see a trend where some sort of tiling is becoming part of more and more desktop environments.

nguyenkien 5y ago

"For starters I have just adjusted my MATE desktop to vertically maximise the window on double clicking the titlebar.For starters I have just adjusted my MATE desktop to vertically maximise the window on double clicking the titlebar." On Windows, you can double click at top/bottom edge of window to vertically maximize