[aklug] Re: xmonad

Not really.. I didn't compare cascading to tiling.. only that above and beyond cascading I
remember an auto-fit tiling mode. Tiles being side to side in 2 directions.

The "idea" is that windows are well fit to a tiled display as you require them to be is up
to your personal requirements of course. Managed tiled windows is quite a bit more refined.

Stepping out of this bear trap.

- Shane

On 04/12/2011 10:34 AM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Shane R. Spencer wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I think what we have here is a failure to truly understand what a tiling
> window manager is. Cacscading is not tiling. Tiling floating windows is
> not tiling.
>
> Look, a true tiling window manager means that window frames and decorations
> are not needed because there is *no* arbitrary window placement, application
> windows are set to specific geometry based on a layout template. The main
> reason why you have frames, title bars, etc., is to allow arbitrary
> placement and geometry.
>
> Windows doesn't "tile" windows by default, you have to make an arbitrary
> decision to "tile" open windows. On top of that new windows have zero
> impact on the arrangement of the existing tiled windows, and can "float"
> above/below the "tiled" applications concurrently. And you can't turn off
> window decorations for your regular clients.
>
> In a nutshell, Windows allows a "tiling" arrangement, but that is not even
> close to what a tiling window manager does.
>
> Xmonad is a hybrid window manager whose primary mode is tiling, but can
> support floating windows. Even with "tiling arrangments", though, Windows
> is still not a tiling window manager, it is not even a hybrid.
>
> Chris: I look forward to hearing more of your experience with xmonad. With
> my little toughbook only having an 800x600 resolution tiling window managers
> are at the top of my wish list. Xmonad is at the top of that sublist, I
> just haven't gotten around to rolling up a haskell package yet.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die

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Received on Tue Apr 12 10:47:12 2011