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Maybe you should look at i3, which allows you arbitrarily nesting tabs and tilings. (I myself use XMonad with tabs grafted onto it, but that's mostly because as

Maybe you should look at i3, which allows you arbitrarily nesting tabs and tilings. (I myself use XMonad with tabs grafted onto it, but that's mostly because as a Haskell fanboy I can't not use XMonad.)

mateuszf 13y ago
I have tried lot of window managers (including i3), but still the best one in my opinion is ion3. Now discontinued, but I still use it. I think it is years ahead of other window environments. The best features of ion3 are in my opinion: - dynamic tiling with vertical/horizontal splits and tabs - easily extensible using lua including information panel (I used it to display useful info e.g. bitcoin prices) - query module allowing to very quickly switch to other windows/workspace or bring any window to currently focused region - query module can be extended to query different sources e.g. bookmarks or locate. I can even imagine adding hood like abilities to the system - query module also supports vim input mode - very good commands support, one can easily configure keyboard and mouse behaviour, including emacs like combos, and moving, dragging windows actions - can be effectively used using both keyboard and mouse - this model of dynamic tiling makes it very easy to move/resize windows using mouse. One can press some key and resize window using mouse without trying to hit few pixels of the edge of the window. Window can be resized instantly and precisely without any mental effort - both tiling and floating modes supported - scrapbook support - there can be panels shown using single key combination with many application tabs in it - accessible from everywhere - session support - one can start wm with already running applications on preconfigured workspaces There are probably other features I have forgotten. I am really sad that Tuomo Valkonen (the wm creator) left the project. There are some other programs that in my opinion didn't get the credit they deserve (like ecco pro) and then other projects have to painfully reinvent them.
mmgutz 13y ago
+1 i3

mateuszf 13y ago

I have tried lot of window managers (including i3), but still the best one in my opinion is ion3. Now discontinued, but I still use it. I think it is years ahead of other window environments. The best features of ion3 are in my opinion: - dynamic tiling with vertical/horizontal splits and tabs - easily extensible using lua including information panel (I used it to display useful info e.g. bitcoin prices) - query module allowing to very quickly switch to other windows/workspace or bring any window to currently focused region - query module can be extended to query different sources e.g. bookmarks or locate. I can even imagine adding hood like abilities to the system - query module also supports vim input mode - very good commands support, one can easily configure keyboard and mouse behaviour, including emacs like combos, and moving, dragging windows actions - can be effectively used using both keyboard and mouse - this model of dynamic tiling makes it very easy to move/resize windows using mouse. One can press some key and resize window using mouse without trying to hit few pixels of the edge of the window. Window can be resized instantly and precisely without any mental effort - both tiling and floating modes supported - scrapbook support - there can be panels shown using single key combination with many application tabs in it - accessible from everywhere - session support - one can start wm with already running applications on preconfigured workspaces There are probably other features I have forgotten. I am really sad that Tuomo Valkonen (the wm creator) left the project. There are some other programs that in my opinion didn't get the credit they deserve (like ecco pro) and then other projects have to painfully reinvent them.

mmgutz 13y ago

+1 i3