Tiling WMs also provide you really efficient keyboard shortcuts. New windows are intelligently placed based on the high-level directives you’ve already given. Instead of having you constantly reorganize the individual windows on your screen, you specify at a high level how you want windows to be placed and the window manager does it for you. Unlike most popular compositing window managers, tiling window managers really make an attempt at managing your windows for you. If you’ve used pretty much any IDE, like Eclipse or Visual Studio, or a terminal multiplexer, like screen or tmux, you’re already familiar with this approach.
The entire surface is divided into non-overlapping buckets where windows are displayed. In contrast, a tiling window manager is more like a well-organized drawer than a desk. You can move them around freely, change their size, and cause them to overlap one another. They use the desktop metaphor, where each program is treated like a re-sizable piece of paper. In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.Īctually, most popular window managers are what are called “compositing window managers,” which is what you are using by default in Microsoft Windows, OSX, and Linux(Gnome and KDE). The meaning of some specific terms like v-split, dynamic tiling etc are illustrated at the end in the Notes section. Also, we’ll not cover the installation part here. Don’t choose a wm just because the bar you see with it in a screenshot is badass. I could use xmobar in i3 and dzen2 in hebstluftwm. Note: The bar should be kept independent of the window manager. Also, xmonad and herbstluftwm will be my best options if I were to switch in the coming years. i3 has also got a very comprehensive documentation. At last, I settled with i3wm, because it had everything I wanted. I had promised to do an article on tiling window managers, because few days ago, I was experimenting with almost all the major ones. Most of you know me, I have been on the IRC for about two months now.
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