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Questions tagged [tiling-wm]

A tiling window manager is a window manager which organizes windows into non-overlapping frames.

example of tiling WM (source: Wikipedia entry for Tiling Window Manager).

Most famous ones:

  • dwm
  • awesome, which is a derivative of dwm with many new features
  • wmii, developed by the same author of dwm.
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Tiling windows in GNOME 2

How can I get tiling windows in GNOME?
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Need advice in choosing a tiling WM

I've used GNOME's default window manager for some years, but now I want to try a tiling window manager. I want it to satisfy these two criteria: WM must be lightweight WM should not be complicated to configure
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Does a terminal multiplexer have any benefit when used with a tiling window manager?

Both terminal multiplexers (screen, tmux) and keyboard-driven tiling window managers (ratpoison, dwm, xmonad) provide similar functionality. Is there any benefit in using both at the same time? What about problems that may arise?
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Are there any Linux Distro that features a Tiling Window Manager as main WM?

I'm a great fan of Tiling Window Managers, but It's odd that I couldn't find any Linux Distro that features one as main WM. For example, Crunchbang features OpenBox, Bodhi features E17, so... wich one features Xmonad/Awesome/I3/DWM...?
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Setting image for i3-lock: "Could not load image x: out of memory"

I use this command for locking screen: i3lock -i /home/freyja/pics/owl.jpg The screen is locked, but there is no picture (only white background). When called from console the command says: Could not load image /home/freyja/pics/owl.jpg: out of…
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More tiling with KDE

I fear that I go into conflicting requirements here, but I still want to ask. I have been using KDE for a while now and I do like its software (Konsole, Okular, Dolphin). I like KWin with its features a lot: Splitting windows on the left/right…
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What is the difference between the various tiling modes in KWin, and how do I use them?

There are 3 tiling modes in KDE: spiral, columns and floating. What does each do and how do make them work for me? For example, spiral seems to cut my screen in half then the next half another way. Is it possible to adjust it so that it's like 2/3?…
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Make Guake Float in i3wm

I want to default Guake to open as a floating window under i3. I created an entry under ~/.i3/config that reads as the following. My code is - for_window [class="guake"] floating enable My xprop for the window is - $…
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OpenBox Mouse binding for dragging window to screen edge

I am trying to edit the lxde-rc.xml file (in ~/.config/openbox) so I can implement Window snapping like in Microsoft Windows. When a window is dragged to the right edge of the screen, it maximizes to fill the right half of the screen. I don't want…
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Run i3 commands from the command line

I am writing a script which allows me to start my report writing setup (pdf viewer, vim, terminal) automatically. For this, I want to start okular, set the split mode of the terminal to vertical and start another terminal. The problem is that the i3…
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Fullscreen game messes with my xrandr dual-monitor setup

I have Gentoo Linux, the Awesome window manager and an open-source ATI driver. Here's my xorg.conf: Section "Files" #ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath …
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Windows 8 style window manager for Linux

Are there any windows managers out there for Linux that offers the "metro" style window management that Windows 8 offers? Actually it's not just Windows 8 that offers the style I'm looking for. iOS, Android and tablets in general seem to take a…
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Easily switching over to a dynamic window manager from KDE

I've been using KDE on Opensuse for some time now and I feel like improving performance and using the most of my dual screens. I discovered tiling window managers and thought it would be a cool thing to try out. However, I'm stuck on a couple of…
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Do high-DPI screens play nicely with tiling window managers?

I'm currently using a 15" laptop which has a moderate resolution (1920x1080). The other day, I spent some time with a friend who owns a Macbook Pro Retina. Just looking at the screen made my eyes excited. The clarity of the display was amazing. So…
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Tilling window manager written in Python

Is there any tiling manager like XMonad but written with Python? I think Haskell was too hard for me. But I know python a little.
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