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> If I'm working with more than three or four windows (which is common) I've basically got my active window and a stack of non-active, tiny, non-useable windows
by willholloway 14y ago
> If I'm working with more than three or four windows (which is common) I've basically got my active window and a stack of non-active, tiny, non-useable windows. In other words, it becomes difficult to combine even a medium-size set of windows with a usage model wherein I wish to interact with 2-3 windows simultaneously.
This is my biggest issue as well. I would like a way to hide these windows and take them out of my next/previous stack. Out of all the tiling WMs out there I feel one has to have this feature but I've been so happy with ratpoison otherwise I haven't looked.
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- sliverstorm 14y agoI feel like a tiling WM could really benefit from a taskbar-like metaphor. It doesn't have to be precisely a taskbar, but the ability to make this or that application completely invisible without sending it to another virtual desktop is often useful. Perhaps, to stay in keeping with the ability to do everything from the keyboard, treat the "taskbar" like a second stack, only reduced to names instead of shrunken windows.
- aerique 14y agoCheck out i3. It can do what you want (if I get what you're writing). I never liked tiling window managers using the master-slave paradigm (like xmonad does) precisely because of the problems you both described. http://i3wm.org/screenshots/ http://i3wm.org/screenshots/ (check the screencast and skip to 2:55 for examples of the different layouts)
- sliverstorm 14y agoArgh. It looks interesting, but the dependencies are killing me; we use an unusual system for managing libraries, and i3 doesn't have a very intelligent config engine...
- aerique 14y agoAh too bad, I wasn't aware of that since I just get it through my package manager.