why doesn't everyone use a tiling window manager?

[chucky chuckaluck]

Maximumize != maximize. It actually does (primitive) tiling.

wouldn't that make it a tiling manager, then?

Chucky,
what are the benefits of using a tiling wmanager over a desktop one?

I'm curious, i'm gonna try it tonigh

in my experience, regular wm's either open apps one on top of another, or at least overlapping one another. tiling wm's will open one app usually maximized and then divide the screen with a second app with no overlapping. how it divides the screen varies with different wm's (wmii will do columns, grids, max stacked, float). there are also different workspaces and easy ways to move or stick an app on another space. most of the ones i've tried go pretty easy on resources, as well.

[bonzodog]

I use openbox, but I would love to see a tiling patch/plugin for it. The devs seem to say that it could be easily implemented. Looking at dwm's code, I am beginning to think they might be right.

[fwojciec]

I use openbox, but I would love to see a tiling patch/plugin for it. The devs seem to say that it could be easily implemented. Looking at dwm's code, I am beginning to think they might be right.

From Dana Jansesn's post to the Openbox mailing list:

> Also, as far as I know there is not an action to auto-arrange windows (split
> them among the screen like a tiling WM). Is this planned for the future?

I'm considering adding some tiling capabilities to Openbox, letting
you optionally change windows into/out of tiled mode.

I agree, this would be a cool feature -- and for my purposes better than having tiling as the default behavior.

[piousp]

So, can I just change Kwin for wmii??? Or i just dont know what i'm talking about?

[chucky chuckaluck]

So, can I just change Kwin for wmii??? Or i just dont know what i'm talking about?

i don't know about wmii, but xmonad has instructions for using it in kde - http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmona..._xmonad_in_KDE

[mali2297]

After been using awesome window manager for a few months, I decided to try Fluxbox the other week. It was really snazzy looking and had neat features, but the window placement was horrible! I had to manually rearrange the windows to not overlap. I tried the ArrangeWindows action but found it primitive to say the least.

I guess it's true, once you have got accustomed to a tiling window manager there is no turning back.

[hessiess]

looks like Blenders UI. while its good for a 3D app, I dont see how much use it would be if you were running 20-50 apps unless you had a 6' display

[Tomatz]

After been using awesome window manager for a few months, I decided to try Fluxbox the other week. It was really snazzy looking and had neat features, but the window placement was horrible! I had to manually rearrange the windows to not overlap. I tried the ArrangeWindows action but found it primitive to say the least.

I guess it's true, once you have got accustomed to a tiling window manager there is no turning back.

Over lapping windows or something akin to a ZX Spectrum. Hmmmm...


I think i'll choose overlapping windows

[chucky chuckaluck]

Over lapping windows or something akin to a ZX Spectrum. Hmmmm...


I think i'll choose overlapping windows

which tiling window manager have you used? i'm confused by some of your comments.

[Tomatz]

which tiling window manager have you used? i'm confused by some of your comments.

I personally wouldn't use one as my screen resolution is perfectly high enough for me to have plenty of desktop space.

I was commenting on this screenshot:


http://awesome.naquadah.org/screenshots/1.png