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There’s nothing there a tiling WM cannot do. I have only tried i3 so I can speak only about that. But I’d assume most others are similar. 1) Tiling WMs make Wo
by thawaya3113 5y ago
There’s nothing there a tiling WM cannot do. I have only tried i3 so I can speak only about that. But I’d assume most others are similar.
1) Tiling WMs make Workspaces incredibly easy to access. Super + # is usually enough to get you to a specific workspace and you can easily have 10 of those. So if you are monitoring stuff constantly, it’s easy enough to tile them all in a workspace and gain almost immediate access and come right back to your primary workflow without disrupting much.
2) If you want constant visibility to a small section of a webpage, for example, you can trivially tile it and resize it to be extremely narrow/high on your current workspace, and scroll to ensure the party you want to be visible is visible.
And you can do all of this with a keyboard probably a lot faster than you can with a mouse.
And the tiling WM ensures you’re using up all the space in the screen without you doing anything (as you make the “background” window smaller, the “foreground” window grows).
3) Finally, you can always pop out 1 or more floating windows as well.