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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
xpytile
Posts with mentions or reviews of xpytile.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.
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How to use dwm in xfce session
It might be easier to use something like xpytile within XFCE to handle the keyboard handling. Read about it here: https://github.com/jaywilkas/xpytile
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Tiling in XFCE?
like shinglify or xpytile.
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Windows-like quarter tiling on xfce4?
You can request the feature at xfce's gitlab, or write your own script to handle windows however you want. Here are some pre-existing scripts you can try or use for inspiration: x-tile, xpytile.
- how i can make windows like this in the default setup terminal in workspace 1 and file manager in 2 ..... so how i can make all windows in 1 workspace?
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Best TWM for beginner?
Without too much disruption to your install, you could try xpytile https://github.com/jaywilkas/xpytile/ within your current DE for a few weeks to see if it works, sort of as a transition if you decide to move forward.
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How hard are Window Managers to use?
You may also want to try xpytile https://github.com/jaywilkas/xpytile/ or zentile https://github.com/blrsn/zentile
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gTile or equivalent
As an alternative tiling helper for XFCE I would suggest xpytile.
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Is there a way to make the windows open maximised by default?
Perhaps not the most straightforward solution, but you could use a tiling helper script which is able to 'tile' windows maximized per default. For example xpytile https://github.com/jaywilkas/xpytile/ It's pretty OK. Only little problem is with xfce4-terminal which is tiled a few pixels too small, but that seems to be a problem of the terminal app.
- Resize windows way
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question regarding bspwm and xfce
If you want to have some tiling support but don't want to give up the comfort of a DE, like XFCE, you could try a tiling helper like xpytile.
shinglify
Posts with mentions or reviews of shinglify.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-26.
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Tiling in XFCE?
like shinglify or xpytile.
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workspaces associated with monitor
Ended up building this instead: https://gitlab.com/corthbandt/shinglify
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Shinglify - Tiling window manager within XFCE
Auto-retile is actually todo #2: https://gitlab.com/corthbandt/shinglify/-/issues/2
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xpytile and shinglify you can also consider the following projects:
gTile - A window tiling extension for Gnome.
Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
x-tile - X Tile
shinglify-bin
projects
bspwm-dotfiles - bspwm dotfiles with a bspwm newbie friendly tutorial
dotfiles - Dotfiles for my setup with i3
dwm-xfce - My custom dwm setup
blended-tiling - A seamless / blended tiling module for PyTorch, capable of blending any 4D NCHW tensors together
awesome - awesome window manager