Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create. One of the most interesting features of the System76 operating system is the Pop Shell Auto-Tiling, an extension that brings to GNOME the classic feeling of tiling DE like i3 or others. Pop!_OS uses auto-tiling for the same reason[…]
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Sway tiling Wayland compositor on openSUSE
Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3’s features, plus a few extras. Sway allows you to arrange your application windows logically, rather than spatially. Windows are arranged into a grid by default which maximizes the efficiency of your[…]
Read moreSway. A Wayland replacement for the i3 window manager
The latest trends on *nixporn are tiling window managers, gaps between windows and rounded corners. So, the most used rice system to get a lot of ‘likes’ is using i3-gaps, a fork of i3 that provides gaps and, also, rounded corners for window rendering. Tiling window managers are popular lightweight alternatives to full desktop environments like KDE or GNOME, they[…]
Read morePaperWM. GNOME with scrollable tiling of windows
PaperWM is an experimental Gnome Shell extension providing scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It’s inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers. The basic idea of PaperWM is: you want to keep using Gnome (because all kinds of things Just Work in Gnome) but you also kinda wish you were using a tiling window manager. It’s a[…]
Read moreGrid Tiling. Not a tiling window manager like i3
i3 is the most famous tiling window manager designed for X11 and all the Linux people met him at least once in their life. It is fully configurable and it handles dynamically tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts. But the use of i3, or of another tiling window manager, for everyday use, is not for all. It is not easy at[…]
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