Let's settle this:

>stacking or tiling?
>dwm
Why don't we have both?

what you're calling stacking is actually GNU/floating or as I've recently started calling it GNU + floating

Tabbing.

Both, your window manager should be able to switch between them.
I prefer tiling overall though, it's more effective.

How is dragging windows around and having to carefully resize them better at managing clutter?

not him but all X11 applications have command line options for sizing and placement. RTFM.

>command line options
Yeah, that's so much easier to configure every single individual application for size and position in a stacking environment instead of just using a fucking tiling wm to do it for you. Don't be retarded.

>drags window to right side of screen
>window snaps to right side
>hue hue hue now I have tiling too
>where's your god now?

>Yeah, that's so much easier to configure every single individual application
what is .Xresources. RTFM. If you don't like editing dot files then you've chosen the wrong OS son.

That's still configuring every single individual application you dumb fuck. Saying RTFM over and over doesn't make you sound smarter.

yeah, we get it you're a dumbass who can't edit a simple rc file. repeating yourself doesn't change that perception.

What seems more straightforward
Edit your rc file to position every application you use on your screen and their size, and end up having to move them around anyways because you will inevitably have overlap
or
Let the window manager do its fucking job and handle that for you

monocle

tiling is only viable and good if you have an extremely limited workflow that fits within it's confines and don't need to do a lot of varied things

Literally false. Do you not know what a workspace is?

Tiling with many monitors.
Otherwise stacking or you don't get enough on the one desktop.

Can get complicated with many tabs.

But you're just a boomer who thinks he's
>able to control clutter
but actually uses stacking because
>dont have to think

>Otherwise stacking or you don't get enough on the one desktop.
see
Ever since I switched to a tiling WM I haven't even thought of the need for a second monitor, but it's an absolute necessity at work because it runs ubuntu and has to stack everything

>Edit your rc file to position every application
how many GUI applications do you actually use?

floating always wins
t. a tiling window manager user (in floating mode :) )

But that's stupid. Most tiling wms can do stacking, so you just have tiling presets for workflows that benefit from it, and then use stacking for things that don't.

Consistently? Maybe 4 or 5.
In total? Upwards of 50.
More importantly, this means configuring specific applications *every time you install one* just to achieve what a tiling window manager already fucking does.

I use fluxbox so whateverr.

what's the difference between them? Care to explain, im just new to nix system and i just install kde

tiling

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Tiling creates more work for the user as soon as they need to manually control a single window.

No it doesn't, unless you have some long-winded explanation as to how.
super-f
wow, now I can move my window.

>*every time you install one*
Good thing I know unix is a cli OS so I don't have to be a pleb and install *FIFTY* gui applications.

You don't do any actual work. Congratulations.

this

I assume "super-f" refers to the floating window bind in i3wm(?). This is not a good solution for anything, because floating windows are always on top of the tiling layer, preventing effective multi-tasking.

Stacking. Works better.

>you have to have GUI applications to be considered "work"
All Linux/Unix gui applications suck. Name 5 that are good that aren't "scientific computing!" meme applications like matlab.

>what is window snapping

tiling > floating > i3.

tiling is a fucking meme, it's only good for working with terminals or text applications.
And when you need floating, in dwm say you have a floating workspace; it works like shit because every window is spawned in the same place instead of being automatically stacked somewhere else.
>"hurr durr you dun need floating"
try using gimp, a chat client like telegram, a file explorer, literally anything that is gui and not just text at the same time
gnome is unironically the best worflow since it automatically manages worspaces instead of leaving empty ones in the middle

> unless you have some long-winded explanation
I've a longass 4K screen @100% scale. Tiling is good for a certain amount of windows, up to 10 or so, and to overcome that, GUIs have workarounds like tabs.

I switched to tiling for a few weeks.
all the drop down menus behaved strangely,
even the drop down box fox code completion inside emacs had problems, it kept losing focus and jumped to the next window. Then there's the problem with drop down terminals, like yakuake and guake, where it kept treating it as a new window...
I switched back to xfce and started integrating most of my staff inside emacs.
I guess tiling is only for screenshots for reddit-tier Jow Forums-tards and that's it.
I didn't check how vivado works on a tiling window manager, but I'll try to do it and record the fucked up mess that it will be.
If you are not an animefaggot that jerks off to 2dpd, keep your regular twm.

dwm, and it sets the workspace into floating mode without moving anything. Then you can drag around your window all you want.

Oh? You gunna view PDFs, talk to coworkers through slack, manage emails, preview your latex documents, manage markdown documentations, store and organize research documents, do any visualization of data, manage spreadsheets, powerpoint slides, etc all through the terminal?
You wanna slow down your workflow that much because WAAH ITS NOT THE TERMINAL!!!! I'M A HACKER MOMMY!!!!

Only works for half-screen sizes and only in the vertical aspect. You can't snap three windows to the right 25% of the screen and have them split their vertical space evenly (or unevenly).

I mean, fair enough. Tiling seems pretty unnecessary at a 4k resolution, since you can lazily just throw around stacked windows with that much real estate.

>I don't know what I was doing so it's bad

>preview PDF's
how does a tiling WM work well with pdfs? it doesn't.
>slack chat
chat is textual. GUI's aren't needed.
>manage emails
also textual GUI's suck for that; learn NMH or the multitude of MAILDIR applications.
>preview latex documents.
That should be PDF or postscript. you're repeating yourself you clutz.
>manage markdown
Again textual. learn your editor.
>research documents
Probably PDF's again repeating yourself you clueless faggot.
>manage spreadsheets
gay as fuck learn awk or python. Or do what the bigboys do and switch to excel.
>powerpoint
glad I don't work where you work.
So after repeating yourself; you're basically asking for MS office.

I think tiling is best at higher resolutions.
with a lot of windows shit just gets stacked into diminute sizes. with floating this never happens since stuff is on top of each other when there's no space to split them without notching the content

Tiling with multi-desktop is pretty based if you do it correctly for yourself.

yeah, twms are very complex, just like rick 'n' morty shit.
twm users are very sophisticated peeple, just like rick n morty fans.
it's not the fact that most twms shit themselves when it comes to floating dialog boxes and drop down menus.
This whole thread reminds me every apple thread on apple forums. apple doesn't have to defend themselves, they have orbiters that police the community.
>you are holding it wrong
>you are using it wrong

Try tiling 30 windows plebs. You can't do it. Therefore stacking wins.

Both. I use KDE with a grid tiling script, can easily be turned on and off if i dont want to use tiling.

fpbp
spbp
tpbp
It's not even a question

Compositing

floating, tmux for terminal you plebs

It gives me a bit more control, allowing me to pick the absolute position that may work for me, tiling automagically picks it out, most of the time you don't have to worry, but with less screen space it can be harder to manager

both you fucking slaves. why even think slacking is not good or is better than tiling. damn kids.

use them both and get on with your lives.

also: install gen..nah, windows 10

>tiling automagically picks it out,
And gets it wrong. Especially with PDF viewers, web browsers.
>viewport is fucked because twm got it wrong.
>Fit to window makes the PDF too small to read
>end up resizing manually anyway.
wow saved me so much time!
Don't get me started when I was using gnuplot with i3. I got many grey hairs from that experience.

stacking + tmux+ emacs

>what are workspaces

>Both
How

The simplest way would be to have a stack on top of tiling and toggling windows between the two or a stack with situational tiling (kinda like gluing two windows together).

kek

Stacking, but with keybindings that snap your windows to the two halves/four quarters of the screen.
I usdd to use i3, but openbox with 7 MoveResizeTo keybindings in the config is just way comfier.

nice digits

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who the fuck cares
just do what makes you comfortable
jesus christ you faggots are worse than /v/

Post config

wasteman

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fvwm or gay

>needing to pick
just use awesome if you care that much

Dvtm, try floating windows in the terminal

based

tty1

Best of both worlds. Not wasted.

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