3 Years Of Daily Driving Linux Tiling Window Managers

I absolutely adore tiling window managers they now my preferred way of using my Linux system so I thought I'd go over what my workflow looks like after all this time.

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[eclipse]

tiling has honestly saved my computing career as of now, a broken arm leads to endless frustrations in a conventional environment. the keyboard focused workflow has taken it from frustrating to usable

[AnalyticMinded]

How I use my i3 wm: no gaps, no titlebars, bar is a black py3status with just workspace numbers to the left and date-time to the right, system tray is usually hidden unless an app requires it, no transparency, no wallpaper, layout is usually a master window on the left and tabbed windows on the right, battery life is through dunst, and navigation is mostly through keybindings. Basically, it's a very stripped down workspace. It has set me free from "ricing"!

[ivymuncher]

I approve of this message, as soon as I installed awesome, my lifespan increased by 10 years!!

[hamblok]

I honestly can't live without tiling anymore. These days I'm so busy that I don't have the time to set up a traditional tiling window manager to my liking anymore, but I've been very content with the bismuth kwin plugin for KDE. I used to use awesome wm and I miss the granular control but just the ability to have automatically organized windows feels like a huge load off my brain when doing complex tasks across many applications.

[davidgomez]

I quit window managers in April and configured MATE to be keyboard driven using scripts for window rules and virtual desktops.
Its just an experiment and so far I like it. This was after MATE added VI keys for moving and resizing windows. I still use rofi
and setup super key + enter to start up ST terminal etc etc.

[sumnerd]

I used a lot of key "chords" in my window manager days, they let you avoid a lot of finger gymnastics that come with the keyboard only lifestyle

[SIMULATAN]

I used to spend a lot of time ricing my desktop (but mostly for efficiency over style), but recently, I settled on more basic configs, with less extreme styling to
1) save time
2) save resources and
3) remove distractions

I mostly use my keyboard nowadays, there's times where I don't even touch my mouse in quite some time, I even use my keyboard to, say, control the tabs of my Firefox, switch discord channel, or even sites in notion, I just love the speed I get, especially because I'm a fairly fast typer

[excidium_]

I switched from KDE to a twm setup about an year ago, it's my home now. The tiling workflow is great but I also enjoy how easy it is to configure and extend all the tools in the twm 'ecosystem'. sxhkd, polybar, dunst, etc

[entelin]

Yeah I pretty much agree with all of this. Personally though I don't have bindings for any application besides the terminal. By and large launching apps doesn't happen very much for me, eventually everything i need is open on the desktops I need, and it could easily stay that way for a week or more.

[markscheck]

I'm putting a computer Linux Fortune file together. "I have embraced the life of the vertical monitor Chad" is definitely going in.

[itildude]

I love every bit of Qtile. I stay extensively on the keyboard for most functions (change monitor, change workspace, move between windows, resize windows, etc. etc. etc.). With three monitors I almost find it necessary to keep mouse mileage down. That said, I am not against using the mouse wherever it makes sense. I sometimes think I should just go back to a floating manager. It's kind of nice to sometimes actually see your wallpaper :-). But I get over that quickly as my setup is just so fast and simple.

[daviseidelbrandao]

Moved to bspwm a few moths ago. Loving it

[tonyramirez]

I remeber my first steps into GNU/Linux being like a year ago configurating simple keybindings to open NEMO and some other apps in Mint, discovering TWMs was a total game changer, it really feels like after 20 years I finally found where I belong.

[Prophet]

I still use my mouse but I use AwesomeWM and BSPWM. I do wanna join the vertical monitor gang.

[SriHarshaChilakapati]

I got a triple monitor setup like you have at work and got i3 installed on Arch sometime around 2018. It was so hard so I had got it reinstalled with Ubuntu first back then and then switched to PopOS when it came out. Kudos to folks who are able to consistently use tilers. To me though, they won't properly adjust to my workflow, where as a mobile app developer I spend most of the time juggling between emulator and Android Studio, both are heavy GUI apps.

[LloydLynx]

I use a pretty simple i3 config. Just a few extra hotkeys for screen locking and program launching, and hjkl for arrow keys instead of jkl;
No compositing either. Intel tearfree is good. When you got a 945GM, every last drop of graphics performance counts.
A tiling wm and a trackpoint mouse are a match made in heaven. I would never daily a laptop without one.

[hansdampf]

Cool setup. I also have three monitors, and using them. The vertical one I use mostly for reading documents and for the terminal. The middle ones is mostly for the browser the other horizontal one if for emacs.
Using xmonad because it was the first tiler it tried and I was happy with it. I sank hours into configuring it, so it can’t switch now. I call that the emacs trap.

I don’t care that much about tiling, I use a tiling wm because of how it handles multi monitors. But I don’t use the mouse nearly as much. I think I only touch it for browsing and do every else with the keyboard.

I got bindings for the mist used things, like browser, file manager and terminal. But apart from the terminal binding I don’t use them very often. When I launch xmonad all the programs I often use are automatically launched to their respective virtual desktops so I got everything I use most often open already.

[millsjonah]

I love the idea of tilers, but floating window managers just generally work better with my workflow and how I use my computer. I run xfce, and my compromise is not just mapping shortcuts for moving windows to pre-defined areas. But the shortcuts I use for opening apps (e.g. ALT+D) for Discord aren't explicitly just opening those apps. It's triggers a script that checks if an instance of that app is running in a hacky manner, and if no instance is running, it opens the app. If it is, it brings it into focus.

[iliqiliev]

I think a video focused on HDR support in Linux would be interesting ;;

[waterbird]

Ive been daily driving awesome wm for 5 months its great