![]() There are some dedicated situations where I tile two windows next to each other, but that's just that: A dedicated situation, often happening on another space/desktop. I feel like a tiling environment with its constantly changing layout would be actual chaos. It may look "unkempt" at a first glance, but is actually very deliberate. ![]() And series of windows all similar to each other that are carefully arranged such that a single click reveals any of them, nearly obscuring the rest of the same series, but never hiding any of them completely. Then there are tiny windows like minimized views of media players that usually neatly fit into some of the open space resulting from my arrangement. for blogs that's usually roughly their "left half", for documentation with a content bar on the left their "right half"), and scrolling them does not require giving them focus. Again the most relevant part of their content remains visible (e.g. Then there are partially obscured browser windows. the last few lines), and I can get their full content at a mouse click/keyboard shortcut press. But those partially covered windows are still showing me what's currently going on at all times (i.e. Even in the early days of Linux I meticulously arranged my overlapping windows in my X11R5 window manager.įor example, there are some terminal windows or similar with running logs (or chats) at some of the edges, partially obscured by other windows who make better use of the space they cover. I must be one of the very few "hackerish" minded people that does not really get the appeal of tiling window managers.
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