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Is there any benefit in tiling only WMs vs using tiling let's say in KDE?

by shmerl 3y ago

luyu_wu 3y ago
Hyprland isn't really tiling only, floating works quite well too! I'd say lightweight, customize, and eye-candy as the main advantages though.
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idle_zealot 3y ago
As someone who always tiles windows to maximum screen usage, a tiling window saves me the step of dragging windows to snap points. I open the windows I want and they're already arranged how I would've arranged them manually. In the rare case that I don't want a simple split, the tiling layout has its own window dragging/snapping system that lets me easily make my windows into whatever grid arrangement I want far more easily than doing so with floating windows, as all I have to specific is the relative locations of the windows (left, right, above, below) and a split ratio, all with mouse drag targets similar to iPadOS's split screen.
- shmerl 3y ago
  KDE has tiling scripts for KWin which can do the same thing. So you can get the same functionality without the need to go barebones for everything else.
  - gchamonlive 3y ago
    It had, but they are all dead until ported to the new kde 6. https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/issues/471#issuecomment-1410969462 https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/issues/471#issuecom... This is what I used. I found no good replacement for it and that is what made me switch to hyprland.
    - shmerl 3y ago
      Could be. Haven't really looked into third party scripts development since I'm not using tiling. But actual KWin APIs should support it.
    - pimeys 3y ago
      This is a fork of bismuth that works with plasma 6. Haven't tried it, but it is supposedly quite nice https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium
  - idle_zealot 3y ago
    I've tried a couple but they had a tendency to lose track of windows and bug out in annoying ways. Perhaps they are better now, but having already set up wofi, a notification daemon, and bt/wifi managers I don't see what Plasma would even get me.

Is there any benefit in tiling only WMs vs using tiling let's say in KDE?

by shmerl 3y ago

Is there any benefit in tiling only WMs vs using tiling let's say in KDE?

Hyprland isn't really tiling only, floating works quite well too! I'd say lightweight, customize, and eye-candy as the main advantages though.

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idle_zealot 3y ago

As someone who always tiles windows to maximum screen usage, a tiling window saves me the step of dragging windows to snap points. I open the windows I want and they're already arranged how I would've arranged them manually. In the rare case that I don't want a simple split, the tiling layout has its own window dragging/snapping system that lets me easily make my windows into whatever grid arrangement I want far more easily than doing so with floating windows, as all I have to specific is the relative locations of the windows (left, right, above, below) and a split ratio, all with mouse drag targets similar to iPadOS's split screen.

shmerl 3y ago
KDE has tiling scripts for KWin which can do the same thing. So you can get the same functionality without the need to go barebones for everything else.
- gchamonlive 3y ago
  It had, but they are all dead until ported to the new kde 6. https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/issues/471#issuecomment-1410969462 https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/issues/471#issuecom... This is what I used. I found no good replacement for it and that is what made me switch to hyprland.
  - shmerl 3y ago
    Could be. Haven't really looked into third party scripts development since I'm not using tiling. But actual KWin APIs should support it.
  - pimeys 3y ago
    This is a fork of bismuth that works with plasma 6. Haven't tried it, but it is supposedly quite nice https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium
- idle_zealot 3y ago
  I've tried a couple but they had a tendency to lose track of windows and bug out in annoying ways. Perhaps they are better now, but having already set up wofi, a notification daemon, and bt/wifi managers I don't see what Plasma would even get me.