I will be honest. It takes a while to get used to a tiling wm. It does pretty much nothing on its own. You have to dive into the configuration to make it usable. You need to search on the internet and add a few lines to your config file to make it work. Setting up a wallpaper, screenshot shortcut, almost everything needs to be configured. But Arnav, you may ask, why does it not give these functionalities itself like other desktop environments?
And this itself is its beauty! You are not bound to some app the Window Manager has forced upon you, but you can choose yourself according to your liking from tens, if not hundreds of different options available. You can find my configs here. The i3wm documentation is a great resource when you are facing any issues. Linux What are the Linux systemd equivalents of runlevels? How to become a developer: A cheat sheet TechRepublic.
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Delivered Tuesdays Sign up today. Editor's Picks. It means the wm gives you ways to search for the app or the doccument you are loking for. This cycle involves that the user doesn't know where's the item he wants. The user needs to cycle thru the available choices and spend a little time in selecting or discarding them.
That small time multiplies by the number of posible choices before the right one. In tiling and stacking window managers user needs to know where left the aplication and select it. There's no cycling, no selection time, but there's a time for remember where do you left the window you want, just before select it And needs some discipline from the user.
Going back to the "Desktop concept" In a normal wm you'll have a bunch of documents manually placed, and in a Tiling mode, all your documents would be placed for you perfectly aligned.
Of course you'll need a bigger Desk, But you could find a document without move anything around. There's nothing wrong with tiling, there were certain approaches to the tiling concept in traditional window managers indeed:.
In my experience Tiling is more useful when there's many windows of similar content like terminals and for extensive usage of one application, or few ones, the traditional. Well, if you have a smaller scren than most tiling window managers will automatically maximize all windows to the screen. It makes it very easy to manage windows without needing to reach for the mouse.
But really it is a personal choice. I recommend you take the plunge and try working with one it for a few months. I started using Winsplit Revolution when I bought a 24" monitor. Some things are almost unusable in full screen on x, like web browsing for example a forum that stretches text over full screen.
What happens when you start using such manager is that you get used to how easy it is to position a window exactly where you want without having to manually drag it and will probably use them with small resolution monitor. I use ion3 on linux and by now whenever I use a standar window manager everything feels like a mess after 5 windows opened, with ion I can have up to 30 windows opened and feel everything under control. I think the best way to understand a tiling windows manager without having used one would be this: Consider using your mouse to select a menu item and drilling into the menu to find what you want vs.
For me, the most important benefit is that I no longer need to use a mouse at all. Also, tiling algorithms can automatically arrange windows in a particular way that suits the task. One might have ten images open at once, and have them arranged so they can all be as big as an efficient arrangement would allow, or a tall browser window on the left with documentation, and two wide terminal windows on the right, one to write code and one to run it and watch the output.
This flexibility allows a configuration for a three monitor setup and then something different a netbook. So one can be more efficient in managing the windows, but also be more organised with work if it involves many windows and tasks at once. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. I have try the most tiling WM like i3, dwm, awesome, qtile etc. Cool screenshot! Xfce was my choice of desktop environment before I found i3. I also use tmux all the time. I have installed i3 since more than 1 year ago and I really like it, also I have this WM fully integrated with Plasma my favourite Desktop Manager and it is very useful.
I love i Gnome, kde, plasma, xfce, mate cinnamon were my desktops before i3. And then i3 came along And for several years I haven't wanted to try another one. It covers all my needs and is very light. Just what I need. On a laptop, switching from the Windows kernel to Linux is like killing a mosquito with a RPG launcher.
From my roommate's reluctant and educated point of view, we shouldn't do more than 2 things with this computer: VPN client, Steam, a Facebook tab, ProtonMail, or the games he'd play with. Using i3 does the same, minus 5 Celsius degrees. I'd like to stress out that such major documentation is not translated at all. I used i3 for a pretty long time. It's a very good choice, but I think the main difference is when you open a new terminal it is automatically placed on the screen and the existing ones are resized to accommodate You can easily move the windows with keystrokes to rearrange the layout No resizing windows with the mouse so you can see many terminals at the same time, it's all done automatically, and when you know the bindings its second nature and very fast to use.
With xfce4, have you tried looking at the settings under "window manager"? I use XFCE with i3 shortcuts and rofi, truly the best of both worlds. I'm also thinking about installing polybar and using that instead of XFCE's panels. Get started with the keystroke-driven i3 tiling window manager for the Linux desktop.
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