why doesn't everyone use a tiling window manager?

[chucky chuckaluck]

i've been using tiling wm's for a couple of months now (mostly wmii), so i'm fully adjusted to them. last week sometime, i reinstalled fluxbox, but dumped it pretty soon as i just couldn't go back to it. if you're not familiar with tiling window managment, here's a little something on it - PathToGlory
using one of these feels like real managment rather than the "did you get that thing i just tossed on your desk?" approach.

note: i realize this could boil over into a massive flame war (assuming it doesn't end up in an 'unanswered posts' search), so let's keep it civil.

[atomkarinca]

The reason I'm not using one is that I've got compiz installed and scale plugin does it for me.

[elmer_42]

I used to do that on windows with hard-resizes and the Tile group option. I haven't yet found a way to do it in Linux with GNOME/Compiz. I am looking at the scale plug-in and it does not resemble tiling at all.

[aeiah]

U G L Y it aint got no alibi

[chucky chuckaluck]

U G L Y it aint got no alibi

stepped in what?

[TeraDyne]

U G L Y it aint got no alibi

Not only will I agree with you on that, but I don't think it looks efficient. Well, not for me, anyway.

[LaRoza]

i've been using tiling wm's for a couple of months now (mostly wmii), so i'm fully adjusted to them. last week sometime, i reinstalled fluxbox, but dumped it pretty soon as i just couldn't go back to it. if you're not familiar with tiling window managment, here's a little something on it - PathToGlory
using one of these feels like real managment rather than the "did you get that thing i just tossed on your desk?" approach.

note: i realize this could boil over into a massive flame war (assuming it doesn't end up in an 'unanswered posts' search), so let's keep it civil.

I'm game. What do you recommend?

[Tomatz]

U G L Y it aint got no alibi

You might as well install riscos.

[Luffield]

It's possible to do it with Compiz 0.7.4. It's called Maximumize. Very handy.

[LaRoza]

Just install wmii, I am hooked.

Thanks fuscia, I was looking for something like this, but didn't know it already existed.