What exactly is a tiling window manager?

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  • dwm

    My Build of DWM (by cjhead)

  • Scroll down for a pic of how my dwm looks here.

  • sway

    i3-compatible Wayland compositor

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  • spectrwm

    A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.

  • Here is one website with screenshots. https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm

  • xmonad

    The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager

  • Here is another tiling wm with screenshots: https://xmonad.org/

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