Is it even worth using a tiling WM for productivity on a 34" ultrawide and a vertical 27" monitor? I'm a gnome gay, but looking to maybe go to kde or xfce.... or i3 like a homosexual. Unironic advice plz.
Is it worth using a Tiling WM?
Is it even worth using a tiling WM for productivity on a 34" ultrawide and a vertical 27" monitor? I'm a gnome gay, but looking to maybe go to kde or xfce.... or i3 like a homosexual. Unironic advice plz.
yes
i always fullscreen every window that i use and switch between them with alt+tab
doesnt matter if its a 12" laptop or a 30" screen
I see a lot of people do that and get into that workflow with 9+ workspaces, lol. For some reason my workflow is fitting frickloads of smaller windows on one screen.
no, no productive employed programmer has ever used a window manager. Mainly they use Mac and Ubuntu.
>citation needed
I do and imo yes, it's worth it. I use dwm and dual monitor setup.
I do. Now what?
You demonstrate you're a productive programmer
Mostly mirrored activity of my current employer's private repos.
>you demonstrate you don't actually have a job and distrohop all day
ftfy
the answer is yes.
don't listen to plebs who tries i3 once and stopped using it because their brightness keys were working. Invest 3 weeks in setting things up and learning the ropes and you'll enjoy a lifetime of heightened productivity.
Yup. I recommend you to start from bspwm and switch to dwm (dwm flexipatch) after
Why BSPWM? What's the reasoning?
IMO It's the simplest one to setup and use
>go to kde
https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/
I was actually looking at this. How is it?
>for productivity
No.
The reason to use standalone WMs is that they're more reliable and customizable than full DEs. Both tiling and floating WMs have this advantage. Most people use tiling because they're easier to configure (you don't need to frick around with stupid shit like window snapping and right-click menus).
No, don't fall for the meme.
Tiling wms are a waste of time and worse than stacking wms in every way.
No
yes, you should use a tiling WM instead of gay gnome or kde, they are such waste of resources, real estate, space on disk, BLOAT shit trash, and image how uch less you will talk about them and think about them? can you believe how much people talk about them on this fricking board, imagine how much you won't be doing that or caring about that anymore. i haven't cared about my tiling manager ever since i installed it. it takes ZERO configuration.
depends on how you want to use your computer
the point of a tiling window manager is to see all open windows as efficiently as possible
the point of a stacking window manager is to stack less important windows under more important ones
for me, the latter workflow makes more sense than the former but both are fine
why did you post my desktop anon
No it isn't. Anyone who suggests tiling window managers is either trolling or a victim of Stockholm syndrome.
Tiling only works reasonably well for text-based applications, but a floating window manager is not worse. Anything with actual graphics is terrible on tiling window managers, you'll have to set a million moronic rules and exceptions to make it usable.
Also, don't forget that keyboard shortcuts, customization and resource usage aren't exclusive to tiling window managers. Floating window managers and even full DEs can have them too.
The only truly distinguishing feature of tiling window managers is the tiling itself. It simply doesn't work most of the time, and that's because window overlapping, despite what tiling window manager websites claim, is actually a useful and desirable feature. Allowing windows to overlap eliminates the need for a dedicated minimize option (which, ironically, most tiling window managers lack), reduces the number of workspaces required and allows you to show MORE relevant elements at a time, by covering the unimportant parts of a window and only showing what matters.
Tiling window managers are the textbook definition of a solution looking for a problem. Managing windows on your display has NEVER been a problem, don't let anyone gaslight you into believing otherwise.
Depends on the usage. If your life is in the terminal (developers, sys admins) then definitely use it. However, this dude is correct about graphical applications being shit when used with tiling WMs. I use Sway because X.org is a security clusterfrick and GNOME devs are braindead. The moment we have a proper wayland-based XFCE or LXQt I'll probably move.
>X.org is a security clusterfrick
Use XACE if you're paranoid.
What problems you guys experienced with graphical applications? 2 years in and never had any trouble.
Scaling, fullscreen, foreground/background can be an issue. Example: I watched a video fullscreen in Firefox and tried to save it, only for the save prompt to appear in the background and having no way to select it except for moving it to a different workspace. Fullscreen applications (mainly games via Proton/Wine) also suck (fail to get proper fullscreen access). Also a multi-monitor setup is hell.
>only for the save prompt to appear in the background and having no way to select it except for moving it to a different workspace
I see, I had similar things happen to me before (not with browsers though), other than that, can't really relate.
Games work just fine, scaling, fullscreen all work fine.
Multi-monitor setup requires a little bit of configuration (resolution and positioning of the monitors) and I use arandr for that which is super easy to use plus it has a convenient script generator so you can run it on start up.
I'm also using a Thinkpad which has stellar linux support so maybe that has something to do with it, idk.
Agreed, floating+tmux is all I need
honestly only views you need is monocle, half split, and quarter split, so you're covered by windows and any sane non tiling wm tbh
If you like gnome then just download the pop shell or smth
Is ok on text based applications but isn't amazing on GU because toolkits expect certain minimum size and WMs ignore them. That's why tmux is cool but something like i3 doesn't fly chief.
Yes, I use a tiling window manager on my dual monitor setup. Of the tiling window managers that I've used bspwm is the one that I prefer.