http://www.osnews.com/story/21728/i3_Improved_Tiling_Window_Manager Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:17:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?370501 http://osnews.com/thread?370501 As opposed to adding tiling as an option to existing window managers? I get why tiling can be a good idea at times, but I don't see why you need a special window manager to handle it. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dagw) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?370509 http://osnews.com/thread?370509 So far it is more likely that tiling wm will have floating windows, such as "awesome" and others. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (GermanG) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?370512 http://osnews.com/thread?370512 KDE may have basic tileing feature someday, but most of the best feature of tiling windows manager such as advanced virtual desktop are out of the scope of KWin, Emerald and Metacity. They are better in there own WM, so that they can push some feature irrelevant for floating based WM. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Elv13) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?370564 http://osnews.com/thread?370564 I find it surprising that there are many 'dynamic' tiling windowmanagers out there (i3, wmii, ratpoison, xmonad, larswm, dwm, probably missed some).

Personally, I love the 'static' tiling+tabbing approach as found in Ion: tiles do not resize or move around on their own, only if I want them to (there are keybindings for splitting/merging tiles).

One thing I miss is a good 'birds-eye' view of all the open windows - some kind of 'expose' for tabs would be awesome.

It strikes me as odd that so few window managers choose that route. Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raboof) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?370576 http://osnews.com/thread?370576 If you mostly need tiled windows for terminal sessions (doesn't everyone?), you can avoid changing the whole window manager by trying out terminator (apt-gettable):

http://www.tenshu.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/terminator.png Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vivainio) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?370646 http://osnews.com/thread?370646 AwesomwWM hate that feature Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Elv13) Comments