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Love both i3wm and Sway WM. This is what computing should be. Windows has surprisingly decent tiling functions out of the box, too, but you'd never realize it
by hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
Love both i3wm and Sway WM. This is what computing should be.
Windows has surprisingly decent tiling functions out of the box, too, but you'd never realize it without some experimentation. Next time you're at a Windows box, try holding Win, maybe Shift as well, and mashing the arrow keys. A minute or two of experimentation might make your whole $DAYJOB workflow that much more enjoyable!
- IggleSniggle 2y agoIt's the one thing I hack into macOS (I use BetterTouchTool for this but only because I already have a license from back when I wanted to mod my TouchBar), and would otherwise genuinely miss coming from any other operating system. I think even iPadOS has tiling shortcuts!
- nerdponx 2y agoYou can also get true tiling window management with Amethyst, or Hammerspoon if you love customizing things in Lua and starting from an absolutely empty configuration.
- Reefersleep 2y agoJust want to add that I'm having a pretty good experience with Amethyst. No file-based configuration, sadly, but it does all of the tiling and movements I need. Hammerspoon (via Spacehammer) seemed too slow for me.
- lambdaba 2y agoRectangle (https://rectangleapp.com/ https://rectangleapp.com/) makes macOS window management good enough (for a non-tiling WM), by adding keyboard shortcuts and drag gestures.
- swah 2y agoAnd the new MacOS version also finally got Windows XP style tiling. (I still like Rectangle because I can do it from a longer distance..)
- kalaksi 2y agoKDE also has extensive keyboard shortcuts for window management (among other things) but most of them are not set by default.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agoI didn't know that! Tracks with my experience with playing around with KDE, like, a decade ago. So much user-configurable power lying just under the surface.
- chuckadams 2y agoOne thing I love about kwin is that the exposé feature lets you navigate the windows with the keyboard. macOS itself doesn’t have that feature.
- wing-_-nuts 2y agoI want to love KDE, I really do, but I've grown to love gnome and os x's ability to have close, min, max buttons down in the toolbar for apps as that saves a significant amount of screen real estate. I tried out kde plasma for a while and just couldn't get past it. Having said that, I did discover kde connect while using that, and I love that app! It's so nice for putting audio books on my phone and controlling playback
- dingnuts 2y agoKDE has this feature now, you just have to add the global menu applet to your task bar and it will do the Unity/Apple thing where the task bar is relevant to the selected application
- c-hendricks 2y agoClient Side Decorations are different than moving the menu bar. Even using the global menu in KDE (which isn't that new BTW, I think it was in KDE3), you'll still have a "height = title bar + toolbar", where with CSD it's "height = toolbar".
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- ar_lan 2y agoFor those on macOS, yabai + skhd have been part of my workflow for years now. They are fantastic to bridge the gap I miss so much from i3.
- chambored 2y agoI switched to Aerospace from Yabai
- nicce 2y agoI switched to Hammerspoon... seems to be good enough with enormous power if you know Lua.
- azthecx 2y agoI used it for years too but had issues with managed laptops and security settings, I've heard that aerospace is meant to work even then. If anyone reading this wants to take a stab at tiling wm in Mac don't be deterred, there are good options available there too.
- bluGill 2y agoI tried that, but most apps just don't scale down well. Important UI elements just disappear, while less important elements maintain their size, unless the app has most of the screen. Those are apps like teams and outlook that I would expect most office users to keep open all the time on Windows (teams is really bad about assuming I want to see the avatar of whoever is speaking more than their slides). Edge did a little better, depending on the page I was looking at.
- pxc 2y agoThis is one of my pet peeves as a visually impaired person. Basically nothing scales right for me anymore. Apps and websites designed for desktops have such insane padding that when I scale them up, basic information is truncated. By the time they're easily readable for me, 'progressive' websites go into mobile mode and do things like collapse their (non-resizeable) sidebars. Last week I tried to cut down on excess padding in a sidebar by resizing it and literally watched it go from 40% excess/wasted horizontal space to completely collapsed and hidden behind another click (and thus unusable with keyboard friendly addons like Pentadactyl).
- eviks 2y agoUser styling can fix some websites at a high cost of fiddling with the layout But we do need some a shift away from this awful low density design paradigm
- bluGill 2y agoIf you live in the US you may have an ADA case against whoever does the website. Many other countries have their own version of that with different rules.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y agoI do keep Outlook and Teams open basically all the time, and full-screened, yes. Here I can only counsel that having multiple smaller monitors was a wiser investment dollar per dollar than one big monitor.
- nicce 2y agoThere is also rather new decent competitor for Sway: https://hyprland.org/ https://hyprland.org/
- azthecx 2y agoI've been using Awesome for about two years and started using Hyprland in parallel due to its very good multi monitor + multi resolution support and it's been great. The only two issues I have with it is slightly increased power draw from ~7w to ~10w on idle and screen sharing does not work. I use very default configs so maintaing both is not an overhead. Awesome offers very high dpi and battery life and Hyprland smooth animations and multi resolution support.