My journey into tiling window managers

While browsing various Linux related forums, I have noticed that people mention tiling window managers more often. They are saying things like – awesome, dwm, xmonad, wmii. And the screenshots associated with them are really pretty not with eye candy but with their simplicity.

So, I did a research and educated myself about tiling windows managers. The main idea for a tiling window manager is – it arranges windows so that no desktop space is wasted – every open window is relatively maximized.

As Wikipedia says:

In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.

This concept seemed to me very appealing, since I like to have things organized. Shuffling throughout many windows just to find the needed one takes a lot of time.

Besides that I like exploring new things, especially those that are considered to be elite. So next article will be about Xmonad.

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