Cardboard; a scrollable tiling window manager

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  • PaperWM

    Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell

    This is reminiscent of Gnome's PaperWM [0]. Not a Gnome user and just had the chance to try it for less than an hour, but the experience in my head sounded better than it was in reality - though was more of 'unexpected behavior' things than faults in the concept.

    I think this approach tries to solve the 'cramming too much windows in a single virtual desktop' that sometimes can be felt with tiling WMs. For example, when I'm drawing something in Krita I'd want to see some references of what I'm drawing - I'd just scroll a bit to unveil an adjacent Falkon window to browse some images on the internet, do some strokes and scroll back to Krita's window - without having to resize it in half.

    [0] https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

  • shell

    Pop!_OS Shell

    I've sadly had a similar experience with System 76's Pop Shell[0]. That said I suspect graphical workloads and applications designed around conventional sizes and aspec ratios are generally not well suites for TWMs.

    [0]: https://github.com/pop-os/shell

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  • yabai

    A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

    A tiling window manager is one thing I still miss on MacOS from Linux. Back then I used ion3, I still think about it fondly.

    I've been eyeing yabai [0] for a while. It requires system integrity protection to be disabled. I initially misread it as being fully disabled, but it turns out once whatever extensions are injected, protection can be reenabled. Excited to try it once it's got a Monterey version.

    [0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

  • cardboard

    Er, on my laptop? It might be more precise to say that I can't find any way to make it use anything else; manpages give me nothing, grepping for "layout" in the source tree gives me nothing (relevant; window layouts show up), and there's an open issue (https://gitlab.com/cardboardwm/cardboard/-/issues/30) asking for it, all of which makes me conclude that it doesn't appear to support doing anything but QWERTY. That said, I said "AFAICT" for a reason; if you can prove me wrong I'll be quite grateful (because, seriously, I would like to use this thing).

  • Rectangle

    Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

    I previously used Yabai, but switched to Rectangle [0] as it doesn't require SIP to be disabled. It's not automatic with its tiling, it needs some direction but it provides a nice 'best-of-both' kind of approach.

    [0] https://rectangleapp.com/

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