I wish someone would make a tiling desktop environment instead of only a window manager to make them easy to use for all without tweaking because they are the future of the DEs.

  • ducking_donuts@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    KDE has pretty good tiling functionality these days, not much need in using another WM unless you have a very specific workflow in mind

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      1 year ago

      I once saw a video which showed off the built-in Plasma tiling feature and complained that it could not have been developed by a tiling WM user, since it was very inflexible and mouse focused. He could not use it with a keyboard, which kind of defeats the purpose of tiling in the first place.

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        1 year ago

        He could not use it with a keyboard, which kind of defeats the purpose of tiling in the first place.

        I wouldn’t say it defeats the purpose of tiling in general - it’s a very nice addition for many of us, but I can see how it lacks utility for hardcore tiling wm users. Perhaps it could be improved if someone have time and skill to step in.

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          1 year ago

          No, “defeating the purpose” definetly is hyperbole. ;)

          But if you’ve used tiling before and do a lot of text editing (like developers do) and use the terminal a lot, not being able to use the keyboard for tiling WMs just feels worse than using a stacking WM in the first place, since you feel so held back by the mouse.

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    1 year ago

    You can do this yourself very easily. I use xfce with bspwm for example, you just have to remove xfwm from the startup applications and replace it with your wm of choice.

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        1 year ago

        That’s the big thing that keeps me from moving to Wayland and sway. I want a full DE and don’t want to reinvent that wheel but afaik I would have to.

        So it’s i3-gnome-flashback for me for now.

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          1 year ago

          That looks promising! Usually. I prefer Plasma, but the tiling options for that aren’t too great either.

          The System76 people are working on tilingein their DE, though.

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          1 year ago

          I know that there are tiling WMs for wayland. But I though that using a different tiling WM (like i3/sway) inside of a certain DE (like Gnome or Plasma) doesn’t work in wayland anymore, since the WM/DE distinction doesn’t exist anymore.