#tilingwindowmanager

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-20

🥳🎉 Behold, a new tiling window manager for , because clearly *everyone* was clamoring for another way to open 39 windows at once and promptly lose track of them. Written in , because why use a language people have heard of? Get ready for so complex, you'd swear they were designed by a prankster octopus. 🐙🖱️
agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/

Hacker Newsh4ckernews
2025-05-20
aaron ~# :blinkingcursor:neuroexception@infosec.exchange
2025-05-20

I started working on #hyprland yesterday and i LOVE the special workspaces. They are so useful for stuff like #keepassxc. A #tilingwindowmanager on a #laptop is just the #goldstandard for me.

aaron ~# :blinkingcursor:neuroexception@infosec.exchange
2025-05-16

Today will be fun. I'll define a colorscheme and set up configs for kitty, hyprland, waybar, neovim, tmux and fish for my #ansible #playbook. Basically the whole #tilingwindowmanager setup, but reproducible. Also thinking about trying #arch again. Could automate the entire installation and configuration using ansible.

#automation #dotfiles #customization #linux

harryprayivharryprayiv
2025-05-03

@cassey You could always install a on top of that works fine.
I had the same issue on MacOs.

I was using for a while but it honestly sucked compared to my gold-standard: XMonad.

I’ve seen a few more MacOS TWM’s pop up lately which you should check out: and are both ones I haven’t tried.

In the Linux world, is my happy place. I long to run it on MacOS but without X11, it’ll probably be called WayMonad or MacMonad.

Fraser Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿frassmith@dotnull.net
2025-04-30

About one year, and several distro hops later, I decided to try my customized version of dwm again. It pretty much worked immediately with only a couple of tweaks required to get it back to where it was before.

#dwm #Linux #TilingWindowManager #FTW

Tiling window manager users on #YouTube:

"Look, I can open all these windows and the #WM just sorts it for me automatically!"

[windows get smaller and smaller until they're beyond unusable]

And the point of that is...? 🤷

#TilingWindowManager #WindowManager #TWM #Linux

Supreme Sexp System (SSS)sss_project
2025-04-15

SSS (v2.1.29) 🐂 now rocks a fully modular config with some nice additions, like controling from Emacs (with smudge) and some UI tweaks as well as better , , and and more love to light themes as well as maybe this makes some users curious :)

codeberg.org/jjba23/sss

dynamic tiling showcaselockscreendesktop and conkyemacs workflow
ScotsBear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-13

Just did some customisations in #KDE that I'm really pleased with.

Krohnkite was a little untidy in the way it tiled certain windows but its Github page had some suggestions on how to clean that up, which I've applied (with some personal tweaks). As well as applying a couple of window rules to more tightly control window sizes every window now has rounded corners and their lilac borders are once again visible, the thick border denoting the active window.

I'm really loving Krohnkite's auto-Tiling windows and now they look as beautiful as they work.
​:ms_purple_heart:​

#Linux #KDE #TilingWindowManager #Krohnkite #MokkaTheme #Catppuccin

A screenshot of my desktop with Tiled windows. There are four windows open. Left half has my browser. The right half has three equally sized windows stacked neatly in a column: the terminal, Alacritty, Dolphin, the file manager, is in the middle. And Bottom is KDE Settings open at KWIN Scripts showing Krohnkite installed.
ScotsBear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Uraael@kitty.social
2025-04-06

Krohnkite turns KDE Plasma 6 into a Tiling Window Manager!

While I love KDE dearly (
​:blobinlove:​) I must confess to a tiny touch of jealousy regarding Tiling Window Managers [TWMs] like Hyprland, Sway and i3.

On KDE I fight with window placement more than is probably healthy. Open a handful of programs of various window sizes and watch desktop space become tricky to manage. Virtual desktops ease the situation a little but not completely.

Tiling Window Managers' big sell is they do all that fussy placement
for you: new windows snap into place while existing windows simply resize to accommodate....automatically. It's a seductive idea. You also get a brace of keyboard shortcuts to control focus or change layout schemes, and so on.

I was looking at Hyprland in particular. Problem is, Hyprland is quite fussy to set up. It involves that old Linux trope: config files and the terminal. Now, this is within my reach, skills-wise. I've learned a lot in the last two years. While undoubtedly my idea of fun It'd be somewhat of a pain and probably time-consuming getting everything the way I want it. I've been dithering yea/nay about trying it for some time.

But then I stumbled on an interesting compromise - Krohnkite!
Github link

Krohnkite is a simple Kwin Script that you load into KDE settings and with the click of a toggle box gives you that TWM magic, no fuss no muss, right there in Plasma 6!

I've been using it for a day now and so far it's really cool.
​:ablobdance:​ If you'd like to try it you'll find it in KDE Settings:

System Settings > Window Management > Kwin Scripts >
Get New...

There's not much in there so it'll be easy to spot, and it's a tiny download so it takes mere seconds. Then you'll see it listed in Kwin Scripts with a config button for you to play around with. Top tip: to apply changes to Krohnkite, toggle Krohnkite off <apply> then back on again <apply>; you don't need to restart Plasma itself.

Let me know if any of you folks try it!

~U~

#Linux #KDE #Plasma6 #TilingWindowManager #Krohnkite

A screenshot of my Krohnkite in action on KDE Plasma 6. Three windows are presented one taking up the left half of the screen, the other two in the other half taking a quarter each. It's better to see this in motion but opening a new window sees all the other zip into new places, goverened by Krohnkite, to accomodate the new window. after so many years fiddling with windows myself it's a bit of a godsend!
2025-03-15

OK OK... keep calm, don't lose time... but but... now I really need to test it! ( #niri see #previousretoot )
(not today though)

oh btw I'm still on i3 on xorg on #debian

#linux #windowmanager #tilingwindowmanager #desktop

2025-03-13

Anyone who has given at least one of them an honest try, and then decided accordingly that tiling window managers do NOT work well with your specific workflow: Why don't they?

I mean this neither sarcastically nor rhetorically, nor do I intend to solicite any objectively bad takes any hotter than my own; I'm actually asking.

#tilingwindowmanager #askfedi #foss #linux #unixporn

Joel Carnat 📽️joel@eggflix.foolbazar.eu
2025-03-05
Joel Carnat 📽️joel@eggflix.foolbazar.eu
2025-03-04

Rise of the Tiling Window Manager - A First Look at i3

eggflix.foolbazar.eu/videos/wa

2025-02-12

I'd like to dip my toes into not using #Sway for a few days, but I'd still like to use a tiling window manager if possible.

There seem to be plenty of #Gnome extensions that provide tiling support. Any recommendations? Bonus points if it's available in Debian Stable (Bookworm).

#Tiling #TilingWindowManager #Linux

lopeztel :nixos: :arch:lopeztel@fosstodon.org
2024-12-03

Ideally I wouldn't be using #windows but #corporateLife demands it, #komorebi makes the experience a lot like having a proper #tilingWindowManager in linux github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

Christian Drumm 🇪🇺🧗🚵ceedee666
2024-10-28

Switched from Amethyst to Aerospace (github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpa) over the weekend.

I really like it so far. A little more configuration needed but feels much faster and stabler.

Can highly recommand the switch!

SP⟁CED GO⟁Tfinner@appdot.net
2024-10-05

#Sway or other #TilingWindowManager users, what's your favorite #NotificationManager? Thinking of switching to Dunst for something more minimal. Been using SwayNC for a while, it's nice and works well but it's kind of more than I want and the CSS is a bit frustrating. Curious what's popular with folks.

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