Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On 2025-06-07, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

Le 07-06-2025, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> a écrit :

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I feel with tiling window managers that I'm missing something.  They
seem to be all the rage, especially in some YouTube circles, but I tried
one briefly and found it wasn't for me.

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Around me, nobody use a Tilling Window Manager. So they can be all the
rage inside some circles, but not that well spread. And some other
Window Managers start to include some niceties which were only available
in Tilling Window Manager before. That tells a lot about some good
things about them.
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However, I use emacs a lot at
work, and its essentially like a tiling window manager, with frames and
splitting the screen.

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Maybe the Tilling Window Managers were inspired by Emacs. Or Vim which,
unlike Emacs which is a full OS, is only a text editor. And some people
wanted to have the same way of managing their applications than they
used to manage their config files.
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I've seen a lot of talk about it with ArchLinux users, and some YouTubers
like Luke Smith and DistroTube I think used tiling and promoted it.  But
I also think there are the type of people who are more about configuring
than doing actual work.

But even with Windows 10, you can kind of do some tiling by dragging a
window to the edges or corners, if you want windows split either side.
With FVWM its easy to do with some keybindings, to get windows in either
half, left/right or top bottom, or in corners.  There was a module
called FvwmPiazza which did tiling.