I've toyed with tiling on GNOME as well. It's a fantastic feature when you can easily toggle it off and on.
I don't often use tiling on my laptop, it doesn't usually do what I want at the time, but it's really helpful when I'm plugged into a couple of 32in 4k displays.
I tried replying from mastodon to no avail… I think that's interesting since I find tiling crucial when I don't have an extra monitor
I find it leaves me with too many odd sized windows that aren't terribly useful. I think it's one of those things that bother some people and not others 🤷♂️
For example, the terminal along the bottom in OP's screenshot wouldn't help me all that much, it's too small for me to do much with unless I'm just looking at a very small piece of a log or a very small status display. Most of what I run tends to be about the size of the window in OPs upper right so I just stack and use the GNOME overview or super+tab to switch. I find the GNOME overview model really, really helpful.
I wouldn't mind laptop tiling if I could have windows that maintained their size and (relative) position on screen but shrunk down to a miniature version when they weren't focused. Sort of a hybrid between an overview and tiling, where the window expands to it's original size and position when focused.
weird on lemmy i see a much longer post lol - oh the ferdiverse
anyway, I think it's more preference for sure - I use touchegg as well with this with my own setups/gestures and it makes comparing lots of data quickly work out for my work flow. I do a lot "this" vs "that" - so for me it's great
weird on lemmy i see a much longer post lol - oh the ferdiverse
I posted by accident before I'd written everything so that's probably just the edit landing first on Lemmy.
Interesting, I like tiling when I don't have multi monitors
No.
Well, OK, yes we can talk about it, but you're buying the beer.
And yes, tiling windows in KDE it is pretty good. But I would prefer the option of having a toggle on window decorations (unless there is one, but I missed it). I prefer my tiling windows to be undecorated, and my floating windows to be decorated.
My window decorations are off globally in KDE. I don't remember how I did it. It might be a theme I had to download?
what is that thing on the left? with all the socials ecc
Rambox, apparently.
What are the benefits to this instead of a TWM? Just curious since I've been seeing a few people singing it's praises, and wanted to know why I'd use it over a traditional TWM.
You get a full desktop environment, which is preconfigured, has better connected parts, and includes GUIs for things like settings.
Ahhhh, okay. Definitely not what I’m after but I’m glad the middle ground exists for most people who aren’t insane lmao.
I will argue on the better connected parts bit though. Most apps designed for TWMs are intentionally very generic, minimal, and simple, making them blend together very nicely. Especially if you theme them, which is very easy to do in most cases.
I think ‘better connected’ refers more to feature integration rather than looks. Stuff like KDE Connect.
for me, just ease of use. I just open windows and have them there. I use the virtual desktops to handle a lot more open things and touchegg/touche to quickly swipe around. i tried to record it… but I don't htink it really shows how easy it is for me.
maybe this is more a post of a customize fit :D
What are you using to do the tiling?
Built in tiling (fairly new and not always perfect)
…sorry correction it looks liek i still have kwin-bismuth!
Are you tiling everytime from scratch when you reboot? Windows not ending up where they have been last time? How can you call that #tiling? I tried it and its horribly compared to any decent #twm.
I prefer clean sessions but I could have it retain after reboot. Does it work as well as sway? No, but it's perfect for my needs and preferences (easy theming and gestures, but with tiling)
Edit - oh no I'm not setting the windows by hand. The tiling does… hope I'm following
I mean, can you provide a video of what you do when booting? Because to my knowledge the way you tile your desktops is not even saved between sessions? This is not what tiling is supposed to be in my book, its more hassle than benefit. But after 10 years of KDE use on my home desktop, I am also quite fed up with most of it. Windows rules disappearing/being deleted/renamed for now reason is just another reason.
Thanks for the video. If I understand this correctly, the way you tiled your desktop is saved, aka having on big window left and two horizontal tiled windows on the right. But where the windows are placed is determined by which window you open first? aka first window being left, then top right and after that bottom right?
