(02-07-2017, 10:53 AM)jkl Wrote: I mostly work on laptops with little screen space, so my abilities to arrange windows without losing information are limited. I tend to use my systems (both Windows and BSD) in monocle mode, having one full-screen window per screen all the time. Humans can't multi-task anyway.

(02-07-2017, 08:54 AM)mrtn Wrote: For me, it's either a fullscreen-program or some windows side-by-side.

Same for me, I think most of us end up converging to monotasking.

(02-07-2017, 10:53 AM)jkl Wrote: Another pro for Tiling WMs: It is the standard as of UNIX v8.

So it used Blit apparently. Are you sure it was strictly tiling because it looks like it's stacking ( http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/blit/blit.pdf )?

Quote:The screen is not big enough (no matter how big it might be). Therefore, windows must overlap. The desires for overlap and asynchronism led to the development of layers, an implementation of overlapping, asynchronously updated windows.

Also, this is probably more like terminal multiplexing than X window management.