Recently I heard about Bluetile. So I gave it a shot.

Bluetile is a tiling window manager for X based on xmonad. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximizing screen use. Bluetile’s focus lies on making the tiling paradigm easily accessible to users coming from traditional window managers by drawing on known conventions and providing both mouse and keyboard access for all features. It also tries to be usable ‘out of the box’, requiring minimal to no configuration in most cases.

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xmonad

For over a year now I have used Openbox as my only window manager in Linux. It is lightweight, stable, easily customizable and fast, yet somehow I was interested in something new.

Xmonad is the first tiling manager that I installed. I chose Xmonad because it seems to be the most popular out of them all. It has great documentation and community.
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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.