Why “Tiling” is being discussed
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I like that this is an active area of consideration. I think there is lots of room for improvement. But I also think that what we have today in Gnome and KDE is pretty good, and…
by Kon5ole · Sep 24, 2026
Once again, I'm not talking about who invented them. I'm talking about the innovations in tiling managers in Linux WMs. I somehow doubt you'll find something as good as AwesomeW…
by BeetleB · Sep 24, 2026
Tiling window managers predate Linux (and Mac and Windows). Not to diminish the work people are doing to make the desktop better, in general I think on the Linux side things hav…
by hedgehog · Sep 24, 2026
> What's so interesting about tiling managers? And of that interesting stuff, how much can't be had just by configuring the window tiling shortcuts in floating window managers t…
by RunSet · Sep 24, 2026
> I've tested everything. Xfce, tiling window managers, kde. Eventually I settled on Gnome did you check cinnamon? Imo its the most user friendly and boring + batteries DE..
by andriy_koval · Sep 24, 2026
Depends on your screen size. On my laptop, I follow pretty much the same pattern you do, so I actually stopped bothering with XMonad. But on my desktop with two 27" monitors, I…
by tikhonj · Sep 24, 2026
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Tiling may refer to:The physical act of laying tiles Tessellation, the mathematical analysis of covering a surface or higher-dimensional object with geometrical shapes Read more on Wikipedia