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I use wmii, so this might not apply to the other tiling WMs (although it does seem to be similar from observing other people), but here goes: The main advantag

I use wmii, so this might not apply to the other tiling WMs (although it does seem to be similar from observing other people), but here goes: The main advantage of wmii to me is that I can always get to my destination window with a single keystroke. I don't have to grab the mouse and I don't have to shift my focus to the window switching process itself like it happens when you Alt-Tab in Windows / OSX. I switch between windows a lot so it was a major annoyance when I used to work on Windows. Maybe for someone with a different work style it would be a lot less important. Most of the time I have one maximized window per "virtual desktop" so there's really no competing for attention issue. But when I do use multiple ones (e.g. for multiple IM clients) I really enjoy the fact that I don't have to do the layout manually (using mouse, again). Finally, it might be silly, but I just realized that "imperfect" windows layout (where there is unused space between windows) bothers the hell out of me. OSX is particularly bad in this regard (and I've noticed other people bothered by this as well).

cheald 13y ago
Maybe I just need to learn to set one up correctly. It sounds interesting. I hear you on the OSX "space waste" thing. Windows has the awesome Win+Up/Win+(Left/Right)/Win+Shift+(Left/Right) shortcuts that I dearly miss when I'm on OS X - being able to move windows around and maximize/restore them with the keyboard is fantastic.
- aldanor 13y ago
  That's the one thing I missed on OSX too, BUT BetterSnapTool does just that and a lot more. I also kinda missed the (true) window maximize button, but then again there's RightZoom which does it.
- xemoka 13y ago
  Give Slate [1] a try, it's a little bit of a pain to set up initially, but it lets you easily assign hotkeys to your prefered window locations. Personally I've also got PCKeyboardHack [2] and KeyRemap4Macbook [3] setup to disable capslock and remap it to a 'hyper' key (command+option+control+shift) so that I can assign my own key combos without having to conflict with other software. [1] https://github.com/jigish/slate https://github.com/jigish/slate [2] https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/pckeyboardhack.html.en https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/pckeyboardhack.html... [3] https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/index.html.en https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/index.html.en

cheald 13y ago

Maybe I just need to learn to set one up correctly. It sounds interesting. I hear you on the OSX "space waste" thing. Windows has the awesome Win+Up/Win+(Left/Right)/Win+Shift+(Left/Right) shortcuts that I dearly miss when I'm on OS X - being able to move windows around and maximize/restore them with the keyboard is fantastic.

aldanor 13y ago
That's the one thing I missed on OSX too, BUT BetterSnapTool does just that and a lot more. I also kinda missed the (true) window maximize button, but then again there's RightZoom which does it.
xemoka 13y ago
Give Slate [1] a try, it's a little bit of a pain to set up initially, but it lets you easily assign hotkeys to your prefered window locations. Personally I've also got PCKeyboardHack [2] and KeyRemap4Macbook [3] setup to disable capslock and remap it to a 'hyper' key (command+option+control+shift) so that I can assign my own key combos without having to conflict with other software. [1] https://github.com/jigish/slate https://github.com/jigish/slate [2] https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/pckeyboardhack.html.en https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/pckeyboardhack.html... [3] https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/index.html.en https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/index.html.en