(07-12-2020, 05:31 AM)Guest0x0 Wrote: Now I am rather convinced that 99% use cases can be covered by a layout no more complex than a 2x2 grid, and complex layouts beyond this are just unnecessary.

Even for those layouts, I've gotten used to 2bwm's default shortcuts to arrange windows in 2x2 or main->2 "slave" relatively easy.

(07-12-2020, 05:31 AM)Guest0x0 Wrote: But one thing I really love about (some) tiling WMs is the way you move the focus. Most stacking WMs and some tiling WMs move focus by some sort of Tab-cycle, but the order is not visible from the visual layout of windows, so you have to switch focus, see which window is focused and then interact, which is slow, considered that moving focus is the most frequent operation when using a WM. But some tiling WMs support moving focus by directions. In this way, where you'll move to is directly visible from what you see , no thinking or interacting is required.

I still rely on a single window on each workspace most of the time (<super-[workspace #]>), I'm to used to it. But thinking about this cycling, it's probably the main reason I try to keep each workspace to a maximum of 2 windows (3 at most).

At work I mostly do web development and have to open a browser, probably a PDF/doc depending on the ticket and an incognito window, and end up being forced to cycle through i.e. browser->PDF->incog, when I only need browser->incog.

I could easily move the PDF to a different workspace, but then I'd have to use less accessible keybinds like <super-6> since the most accessible ones are already occupied by other stuff I use.