Tiling vs Stacking - Desktop Customization & Workflow

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I'm really not satisfied with either stacking or tailing modes of operation. On my 1440p monitor tiling is very wasteful, ironically I feel more claustrophobic with big screen and a tiling wm, yes you use the whole screen all the time, but 70% of it still shows you blank backgrounds of applications. I also hate that text and important things are very spaced out horizontally (if I open two terminals left one will draw text too close to the monitor's edge, while right one will draw text close to center of the screen), I like my windows to be close to center, where my vision naturally goes and not exactly symmetrical in terms of padding/margins from sides/top/bottom of the monitor.
As for stacking I'm not happy how it requires you to manually pick and place windows all the time, yes you can make scripts with wmutils but then it requires big up front effort to come up with these scripts and learn shortcuts for all of them, for example if I want modes for - 2,3 windows side by side, 2 windows vertically, 4 windows in grid manner, 1 browser on the right and vertical grid on the left, and I want them to be dynamic i.e 3 side by side will automatically convert into 2 side by side if i close one window, it will take tons of time to tweak and make it work for my liking. And I'm not even sure if I can pull off very complex logic on my own like tiling-stacking hybrid.
I remain largely unsatisfied with my workflow, it is really not fast or efficient, I just throw things around and drag them if they get in the way.


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Tiling vs Stacking - by venam - 02-07-2017, 03:44 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by mrtn - 02-07-2017, 08:54 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by jkl - 02-07-2017, 10:53 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by venam - 02-07-2017, 11:16 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by jkl - 02-07-2017, 11:26 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by venam - 02-07-2017, 11:31 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by mrtn - 03-07-2017, 04:12 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by pyratebeard - 03-07-2017, 09:49 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by mrtn - 03-07-2017, 10:45 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by acg - 03-07-2017, 10:56 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by z3bra - 03-07-2017, 06:15 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by r4ndom - 04-07-2017, 09:57 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by hades - 04-07-2017, 11:31 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by acg - 04-07-2017, 11:40 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by kyberkhrime - 05-07-2017, 03:22 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by acg - 05-07-2017, 03:37 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by venam - 25-09-2020, 04:38 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by ckester - 25-09-2020, 06:14 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by ckester - 25-09-2020, 06:54 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by venam - 26-09-2020, 02:28 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by freem - 28-09-2020, 07:55 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by Dworin - 02-10-2020, 01:30 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by ckester - 02-10-2020, 05:05 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by Dworin - 03-10-2020, 12:35 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by freem - 04-10-2020, 06:36 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by pfr - 06-10-2020, 09:15 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by z3bra - 06-10-2020, 12:12 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by seninha - 06-10-2020, 01:20 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by mcol - 07-10-2020, 11:31 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by petar - 07-10-2020, 05:35 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by seninha - 07-10-2020, 05:44 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by petar - 07-10-2020, 07:06 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by seninha - 07-10-2020, 07:23 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by stratex - 22-11-2020, 06:46 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by Dworin - 22-11-2020, 10:45 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by z3bra - 23-11-2020, 06:34 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by sulami - 25-11-2020, 07:18 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by opfez - 25-11-2020, 12:40 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by stratex - 25-11-2020, 12:59 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by sulami - 25-11-2020, 01:23 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by jkl - 25-11-2020, 01:41 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by opfez - 25-11-2020, 04:10 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by jkl - 25-11-2020, 04:14 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by opfez - 25-11-2020, 04:17 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by Dworin - 26-11-2020, 02:16 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by Guest0x0 - 07-12-2020, 05:31 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by venam - 07-12-2020, 05:49 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by acg - 07-12-2020, 02:13 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by freem - 07-12-2020, 02:33 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by Guest0x0 - 08-12-2020, 04:29 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by venam - 08-12-2020, 04:36 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by stratex - 08-12-2020, 10:12 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by freem - 08-12-2020, 12:31 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by Guest0x0 - 09-12-2020, 12:13 AM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by freem - 09-12-2020, 02:35 PM
RE: Tiling vs Stacking - by Guest0x0 - 10-12-2020, 01:04 AM