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Maybe this is a bit of a ridiculous idea, but what about natively supporting tabs in a window manager? While it would probably be impractical to force all appli
by Lramseyer 5y ago
Maybe this is a bit of a ridiculous idea, but what about natively supporting tabs in a window manager? While it would probably be impractical to force all applications to support tabs, it would be nice to be able to rearrange elements/windows of work/productivity apps as such.
- pdosev 5y agoA lot of tiling WMs, for example i3, already support that. It can be useful when you want to hide a window like a long running terminal session, but I usually go to a new virtual desktop instead
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoThis is not that far from the way macOS does it, where apps can go full-screen as if they were single-app virtual desktops. You can flick between the apps, but the useless situation where apps are half-off the screen, like the wretched Metro interface on Windows, does not occur.
- ruined 5y agokde has supported this for years, and pretty much every tiling wm allows similar configuration
- isr 5y agofluxbox ;-)
- sidpatil 5y agoBeOS and Haiku support this natively. So does Essence [1]. On Linux, I usually use i3 and arrange windows in tabbed or stacked layouts. Other tiling window managers may offer similar functionality. On Windows, I like to use TidyTabs [2]. This is a paid product, but it works really well. [1] https://nakst.gitlab.io/essence https://nakst.gitlab.io/essence [2] https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs
- mmgutz 5y agoFor Windows, Groupy is a utility to group and tab windows. Works well with the built in snapping of Windows. Buy it on Steam and you can use it on up to five computers IIRC.
- _dain_ 5y agoThis is precisely what tabbed does: https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/ https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/