Turn Sway & i3 Into Dynamic Tiling Window Manager

Sway & i3 are great window managers but it's also a manual tiler and after coming back from AwesomeWM is really hard to get into but luckily there's a solution a simple script called autotiling

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[sashalachance]

I've been using i3-gaps without automatic tiling and I never thought about changing it. Your video made me think about that potential upgrade, but I never felt like I needed it!

[seventhgreeter]

Just converted to i3-gaps from xfce as my first twm on Artix. Loving it so far, with my 40% planck olkb, I fly across zsh in kitty, links, nvim, like the wind....now if only my brain could keep up with my fingertips...aaaanywho, installed this using paru after watching your vid. Awesome change to the ui. Thanks Brodie.

[XoStefan]

I'm on a single ultrawide monitor. Default splitting direction in i3 is fine 99% of the time and I very rarely have more than 3 windows per desktop. I don't really see the upside for dynamic tiling (tried awesome and qtile).
The defaults on i3 are much better for my workflow and the documentation is by far the best out of any window manager that I've seen.
I'm much happier than I was on AwesomeWM.
Maybe I'm just too used to this from using PopOS for a while.

[erikreider]

I've been using that script for a while in sway. It's great :)

[Syphdias]

Thank you for introducing me to this script!

If you are a stack/tabbed layout user, maybe give it another try and use the `--limit` option. You might like the behavior with `--limit 2` and then only switch to stack/tabbed on the lowest level.

[rustyelectron]

I used this autotiling script when I was on i3-gaps. It works great except that it makes i3 behave weird if you try to change the window layout to stacking (mod+s) or tabbed(mod+w). Otherwise its great.

[seanrileyhawkins]

I just started customizing AwesomeWM so for me it works just fine.

[jayst]

I’m a big fan of bspwm. I don’t know if it’s a dynamic or manual tiler because I’m still confused about the difference but it works great. It does that “swirl” styled tile by default for me. Really easy to configure too

[jortz]

I've been using i3-alternating-layout for a while. Simple python script, works great.

[Xhisorz]

Nice i'm using it now as well. Thx.

[TheCharlos]

Discovering Autotiling is the moment I considered windows obsolete

[thingsiplay]

When I started with tiling managers and i3, the manual tiling was the reason why I searched for an alternative. There was a dynamic tiling script, but it was wonky and did not work 100% perfectly like native. I find manual tiling is so much work.
Edit: Forgot to mention that I am on Qtile now and have a layout that emulates manual tiling like i3. lol. But I have bunch of layouts, one emulating bsp, one that is monad like and so on and so fort.

[kendarr]

I always manually did this by using shortcuts and my mouse has a lot of keys for my i3 I'll try this, looks neat.

[andersschramm]

This is a good idea if spawning terminals directly in i3. Personally I fell in love with tmux. Only need one terminal window. Can't see the use for dynamic tiling for the other apps in i3 + I like the tabbing and moving windows in and out of them.

[Jelster]

i use sway without an autotiler, but this script seems pretty cool

[akn]

I use DWL, It's basically dwm. It works well.

[mjgritli]

this is awesome, I tried another script but it had some issues when toggling tabbed/stack mode, so does this script, I'm thinking of moving into bspwm since I moved by shortcuts to sxhkd completely.

[taidee]

I use dynamic tiler 😀, autotiling is great because I also love i3.

[MNucky]

I've been using i3-master-layout, i like it better than autotiling or i3-alternating-layout

[hytryi_huy]

Which alacritty theme do you use?
You have very interesting configs