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If you want a tiling WM backed by a full DE ( with sleep, volume buttons, media buttons, working automagically ) you should try Regolith[0] [0] https://regolit

by Naac 5y ago

If you want a tiling WM backed by a full DE ( with sleep, volume buttons, media buttons, working automagically ) you should try Regolith[0] [0] https://regolith-linux.org/ https://regolith-linux.org/

folkrav 5y ago
After rotating i3, bspwm and qtile for a while - never managing to make it "just work" as expected on every single machine I own - I gave up and went with Pop OS. Their Pop Shell extension is basically what I wanted all along - tiling without giving up the DE.
- Naac 5y ago
  I would recommend you give Regolith a try. I was also looking for a "just works" tiling window manager solution and Regolith gives you the best of gnome, and i3.
beepbooptheory 5y ago
I just want something like this but with Arch.
- caslon 5y ago
  Why not take the ten minutes to set it up yourself? It's pretty trivial to get everything Naac described working.
  - beepbooptheory 5y ago
    Yes I mean that is my current set up, I am not that fast though! But it would just be nice to have the full DE backing behind i3 as a distribution. Yes I know you can do everything here with list of tools, but I just want a configuration that I know has been thought out, with best practices, and easy to modify in a reproducible way. The list of dotfiles and little adjustments alone you need to marry i3 with a power manager, menu bar, network manager, is a lot! I just want the work done for me (a DE).
    - csdvrx 5y ago
      But why i3 if you can do that with the existing window manager and shortcuts? It seems to me you are introducing complexity for complexity sake, with nothing to be gained - except maybe nerd credential points for using i3?
      - beepbooptheory 5y ago
        Yes, you are right... I guess just need the tiling shortcuts and the AUR. and I guess I want gnome-control-center, and that can be that.
        csdvrx 5y ago
        I may not be fancy, but it will get you where you want to be faster, easier, and in a more maintainable way.
- Naac 5y ago
  The Regolith package is available in Arch Linux.
  - beepbooptheory 5y ago
    oh cool! I'm sold.
- bisby 5y ago
  https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-i3-config https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-i3-config All distros are basically the same but with different default packages and package managers. Fortunately, regolith is open source and has repos for their default configs. Get the right packages installed on Arch and copy the regolith configs for those packages. and you have yourself an arch regolith clone.
csdvrx 5y ago
As shown in Windows 10 and now 11, tiling can be achieved easily by: - having windows automatically start at "empty" coordinates if available, - having sufficient shortcuts to position them on specific square coordinates. Since I have a wide screen, I have configured win-[, win-] and win-\ to go to the left third, middle third, right third. On a thinkpad, I complement that by having win-left to the left half (50%), win-right go to the right half (50%), win-pgup toggle half size top and win-pgdown toggle half-size bottom. Then I can assemble the windows very precisely with just the keyboard (full screen, half screen, quarter screen, one-third of a screen, one-sixth of a screen) both on the laptop display and the external wide screen, while keeping the full convenience of normal titlebars and mouse operations to reposition windows by hand if needed. Add to that some custom scripting to make win-left and win-right move between physical screen, and you get a tiling solution that do not require any specific window manager. Of course, space taken by the title bars might be a problem, but with Mica and the like (more generally, titlebar moving from "full of wasted empty spaces to "where tabs are shown", like Edge now does), I think tiling WM are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
ghostly_s 5y ago
Or if you want a truly full-featured desktop, try KDE + the Bismuth KWin extension. ;)
- deleted 5y ago
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- smallerfish 5y ago
  Oh nice! I'd been living with krohnkite's bugs - glad somebody picked it up. Would be good to get it out of the PPA and into official ubuntu repos.

by Naac 5y ago

If you want a tiling WM backed by a full DE ( with sleep, volume buttons, media buttons, working automagically ) you should try Regolith[0] [0] https://regolith-linux.org/ https://regolith-linux.org/

folkrav 5y ago

After rotating i3, bspwm and qtile for a while - never managing to make it "just work" as expected on every single machine I own - I gave up and went with Pop OS. Their Pop Shell extension is basically what I wanted all along - tiling without giving up the DE.

Naac 5y ago
I would recommend you give Regolith a try. I was also looking for a "just works" tiling window manager solution and Regolith gives you the best of gnome, and i3.

beepbooptheory 5y ago

I just want something like this but with Arch.

caslon 5y ago
Why not take the ten minutes to set it up yourself? It's pretty trivial to get everything Naac described working.
- beepbooptheory 5y ago
  Yes I mean that is my current set up, I am not that fast though! But it would just be nice to have the full DE backing behind i3 as a distribution. Yes I know you can do everything here with list of tools, but I just want a configuration that I know has been thought out, with best practices, and easy to modify in a reproducible way. The list of dotfiles and little adjustments alone you need to marry i3 with a power manager, menu bar, network manager, is a lot! I just want the work done for me (a DE).
  - csdvrx 5y ago
    But why i3 if you can do that with the existing window manager and shortcuts? It seems to me you are introducing complexity for complexity sake, with nothing to be gained - except maybe nerd credential points for using i3?
    - beepbooptheory 5y ago
      Yes, you are right... I guess just need the tiling shortcuts and the AUR. and I guess I want gnome-control-center, and that can be that.
      - csdvrx 5y ago
        I may not be fancy, but it will get you where you want to be faster, easier, and in a more maintainable way.
Naac 5y ago
The Regolith package is available in Arch Linux.
- beepbooptheory 5y ago
  oh cool! I'm sold.
bisby 5y ago
https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-i3-config https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-i3-config All distros are basically the same but with different default packages and package managers. Fortunately, regolith is open source and has repos for their default configs. Get the right packages installed on Arch and copy the regolith configs for those packages. and you have yourself an arch regolith clone.

csdvrx 5y ago

As shown in Windows 10 and now 11, tiling can be achieved easily by: - having windows automatically start at "empty" coordinates if available, - having sufficient shortcuts to position them on specific square coordinates. Since I have a wide screen, I have configured win-[, win-] and win-\ to go to the left third, middle third, right third. On a thinkpad, I complement that by having win-left to the left half (50%), win-right go to the right half (50%), win-pgup toggle half size top and win-pgdown toggle half-size bottom. Then I can assemble the windows very precisely with just the keyboard (full screen, half screen, quarter screen, one-third of a screen, one-sixth of a screen) both on the laptop display and the external wide screen, while keeping the full convenience of normal titlebars and mouse operations to reposition windows by hand if needed. Add to that some custom scripting to make win-left and win-right move between physical screen, and you get a tiling solution that do not require any specific window manager. Of course, space taken by the title bars might be a problem, but with Mica and the like (more generally, titlebar moving from "full of wasted empty spaces to "where tabs are shown", like Edge now does), I think tiling WM are quickly becoming a thing of the past.

ghostly_s 5y ago

Or if you want a truly full-featured desktop, try KDE + the Bismuth KWin extension. ;)

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smallerfish 5y ago
Oh nice! I'd been living with krohnkite's bugs - glad somebody picked it up. Would be good to get it out of the PPA and into official ubuntu repos.