[aklug] Re: xmonad

From: Shane R. Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>
Date: Tue Apr 12 2011 - 10:01:22 AKDT

I remember cascade arrangement hotkeys.. and I sort of remember a hotkey to attempt to
tile windows in Windows 3.x. Maybe that ain't so.

On 04/12/2011 08:35 AM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Jim Gribbin wrote:
>
>> Probably before your time, sonny ;-), but Windows started out as a
>> "tiling" desktop. The tiling concept didn't go over very well. 640 x 480
>> screens were all the rage then and you can't get many tiles on that size
>> screen, not large enough tiles to be useful anyway.
>>
>> I think W95 was the first one w/ your "floating" windows.
>
> Uh, no, that's not true. I can personally vouch for Windows going back to
> Windows/286 that it wasn't a "tiling" desktop. And the limited resolutions
> are exactly why: tiling desktops weren't truly useful until the higher
> resolutions. Even Windows 3.1, which allowed tiling of *sub* windows within
> an MDI application still managed all main application windows strictly as
> floating windows.
>
> It's important to differentiate between a true "tiling window manager" and a
> normal wm that allows you to tile floating windows. They're not the same
> thing.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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