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You don't see your desktop as in it's always covered or as in your WM hides the root window?
by TheDesolate0 3y ago
You don't see your desktop as in it's always covered or as in your WM hides the root window?
- Arnavion 3y agoThe former. A tiling WM covers the entire desktop with whatever windows are visible in the workspace. One window starts out full screen, creating a second window halves the first one and tiles them side-by-side, and so on. I would only see the desktop when I switch to a new empty workspace, but the reason I switched to a new empty workspace in the first place is because I wanted to start a new window there, so that glimpse of the desktop would be short-lived.
- Kharacternyk 3y agoMany tiling WMs have an option for gaps between the windows. Do you find them unpleasant? I love my 8px gaps. Most of the wallpaper is still covered, though.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoI personally hate those gaps. Wasted space.
- castalian 3y agoMaybe these gaps should be filled with decoration. Like with ornaments similar to those you can find in medieval books.
- kqr 3y agoI agree. For me the point of a tiling window manager is that it efficiently uses the screen space automatically. I don't have to drag windows around to do it. Automatically wasting space sounds less attractive...
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- mschulkind 3y agoTiling window managers generally size windows as large as possible. Windows only shrink to make way for other windows, so unless you do something weird, or switch to a desktop with no windows, or have some sort of transparency enabled, you won't see your background at all.