c/tilingwindowmanagers - A place to talk about and share media related to tiling window managers!
c/tilingwindowmanagers - A place to talk about and share media related to tiling window managers!
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Genuine question, what is a tiling window manager?
Edit: Thanks everyone for the replies. Had no idea this was even a thing people cared about haha
A window manager is part of every desktop suite. It controls how you view the windows of your different applications.
A tiling window manager doesn't generally allow the windows of different applications to overlap. You don't usually move them with a mouse.
Instead, they open and arrange according to an internal logic, which is usually scriptable and highly customizable by the user.
It's a piece of software which automatically arranges open windows on your desktop according to different algorithms and layouts, and allows you to switch focus them and move them around in the layout by using keyboard shortcuts. One you get in the flow, you very rarely have to use the mouse to move windows around, maximize them, minimize them, resize them etc.
If you've ever seen a post on !unixporn@lemmy.ml or similar places, the vast majority of them are using tiling window managers to get that look of clean organized windows on the desktop!