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I don't know about other wms, but in i3, floating a window is just a matter of pressing super+space. Moving it around and resizing is very ergonomic as well, it
by sullyj3 5y ago
I don't know about other wms, but in i3, floating a window is just a matter of pressing super+space. Moving it around and resizing is very ergonomic as well, it's just super+left click drag and right click drag respectively. The really nice thing about the resizing is that you don't have to hit a tiny window border target with your mouse, super+right click just snaps to the nearest border of the window you're in.
My guess is that most other tiling wms would have a straightforward way to float windows as well.
- autophagian 5y agoWith XMonad it's also pretty straightforward. You can do it for specific applications by using the window class in your config's manageHook (like: className =? "KeePassXC" --> doFloat). In my configuration, I also have it set up that if I hold the mod key and drag a window with the left mouse button, it becomes floating. Mod+drag with the right mouse button resizes it, pretty similar to the i3 setup you mention.
- leephillips 5y agoThey all do. People who leave comments like this have never actually used a tiling WM. Or they claim to have “tried” but never bothered to find out how it works.