#tiling wm

[nixos-official]

Yall I am in love with this wallpaper (made by diinki on youtube) I mostly make my own wallpapers but this one has just the right amount of colours its great:)

[hemthead]

How do people (who use a desktop) survive without a tiling window manager?!

Every normal DE I've ever used just feels terrible: random windows floating around everywhere, things you want to stay on the screen getting pushed back when you click on something else, applications almost never letting you shrink them enough to not overlap in someway; I just dont understand how/why people deal with that.

This is actually one of my favorite features of Windows; it'll let you tile an application into each corner. Windows doesn't have the greatest tiling feature-set, but it's enough for normal users, and it's, unfortunately, more than I've found with my default linux installs.

[cyberpriestess]

herbsluftwm initial (5 min) impressions: dynamic mode feels familiar coming from i3. I like the way you can split bspwm-style and I'm unsure yet if I like frames (containers ?) being separate to applications.

I kept going to toggle layout and it wasn't toggling how I expected bc of the way frames work vs i3 containers.

excited for the autotiling layouts though !!

[cyberpriestess]

tiling users !! hello hi i love you <3

i got a question about workflows, specifically use of workspaces/tags/virtual desktops. screen/tmux/dvtm users, my beloved terminal freaks, this includes you !!

this does NOT include aerosnap, sorry not sorry.

answer for your typical workflow on your main machine :3

how do you organise your workspaces/tags ?

one application/type per workspaces (1 monitor)

one application/type per workspace (2+ monitors)

each workspace is a context* (1 monitor)

each workspace is a context* (2+ monitors)

i just freestyle it wheeeeee ! (1 monitor)

i just freestyle it my setup is a mess (2+ monitors)

EVERYTHING on one workspace, we have tabs (1 monitor)

EVERYTHING on one (2, technically) workspace, we have tabs (2+ monitors)

secret other option (in tags)

what's a tiling wm/see results !

Voting ended onAug 22, 2023

*context - a set of applications for a particular task.

[cyberpriestess]

i'm intrigued how other tiling wm users have their workflow - for a single monitor i like to have dedicated application (or application-type) workspaces that occasionally pull double duty and a couple misc workspaces.

for dual-monitor i have a couple primary workspaces that have the same applications on (and are intended to be dynamic), and then a bunch of extras for a particular workflow or grouping, as well as major use of the i3 scratchpad for specific stuff like music player, tumblr, media vault (literally just ranger showing my films and tv shows folder) and password manager.

the moment i get to a combination of splits and tabs that i want to easily switch through i'll move some to another workspace. otherwise, having multiple tabbed views on a single workspace feels natural since i don't switch between them (they're all their own context)

[cyberpriestess]

i'm sure there's a hacky way to do it, but given i3 and sway has a lot of

bindsym $mod+x <command> x

it would be nice to have iteration as an option like

set $x '1..8' bindsym $mod+$x <command> $x

and for words maybe it's a list/strarray

set $y [left,down,up,right] bindsym $mod+$y <command> $y

this achieves nothing but making config files look cleaner

[cyberpriestess]

part of me misses the bspwm but i3 and sway offer the same config flexibility (just use includes in your main conf) and handles multi monitors real well

I just need to tinker with the scratchpad so I can call/launch specific applications consistently

and then work out which applications should be pinned for my workflow

[cyberpriestess]

sway/i3 containers still hurt my brain a little, but the fanciest stuff i've found myself needing is switching between tabbed and split view on the root container of a given desktop, or having a split with one half of it tabbed

can't say i've seen anyone actually use a workflow based on complex container manipulations in addition to a ton of virtual desktops