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I think the problem is that tiling window managers have never been mainstream, so they are all targeted at people who would go out of there way to install a til

I think the problem is that tiling window managers have never been mainstream, so they are all targeted at people who would go out of there way to install a tiling window manger. By contrast, even non-mainstream composting window managers have the benefit of seeing how the mainstream ones do things to be usable (and have had more effort put into them in general). Another problem is that tiling window managers are (almost?) never part of a complete desktop environment. They may pay lip service to this (in the form of a basic start-menu type thing), but for the most part they are simply window managers. With composting window managers, no one (except the developer) thinks of the WM by itself.

rob05c 13y ago
> a complete desktop environment I agree. I wish more Tiling WMs came with a GUI application launcher, better mouse support for moving and resizing, login screens, etc. Not everyone uses a Tiling WM because they're a masochist musophobe.
- gizmo686 13y ago
  I think you are looking at it from the wrong angle. The WM is just a component of a complete desktop environment. Instead of making a Tiling WM that comes with the kitchen sink, we should make a Tiling WM that simply replaces the WM on the pre-existing, and fully featured, desktop environment you already have. Technically speaking, this is not challenging. For example, to make Awesome the defualt window manager in gnome, one need only run: "gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager awesome" Obviously, this is a large barrier for a casual user wanting to try a tiling window manager. However, if WM installer changed that setting instead of just creating its own desktop environment, then we would not be having this problem.
  - jjsz 13y ago
    I'm a casual user of GNOME. I would like to do what someone mentioned on here: use a TWM with the GNOME menu bar for applets but I want them to have predifined "snaps". [0] How hard is it to implement this? [0] http://imgur.com/SO4LmDq http://imgur.com/SO4LmDq

rob05c 13y ago

> a complete desktop environment I agree. I wish more Tiling WMs came with a GUI application launcher, better mouse support for moving and resizing, login screens, etc. Not everyone uses a Tiling WM because they're a masochist musophobe.

gizmo686 13y ago
I think you are looking at it from the wrong angle. The WM is just a component of a complete desktop environment. Instead of making a Tiling WM that comes with the kitchen sink, we should make a Tiling WM that simply replaces the WM on the pre-existing, and fully featured, desktop environment you already have. Technically speaking, this is not challenging. For example, to make Awesome the defualt window manager in gnome, one need only run: "gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager awesome" Obviously, this is a large barrier for a casual user wanting to try a tiling window manager. However, if WM installer changed that setting instead of just creating its own desktop environment, then we would not be having this problem.
- jjsz 13y ago
  I'm a casual user of GNOME. I would like to do what someone mentioned on here: use a TWM with the GNOME menu bar for applets but I want them to have predifined "snaps". [0] How hard is it to implement this? [0] http://imgur.com/SO4LmDq http://imgur.com/SO4LmDq