I used to use Sway and I found tiling to be useful only when using multiple terminals. Tmux allows me to have tiling functionalities for terminals while having a full desktop environment for all other applications.

  • dlarge6510@lemm.ee
    21·
    1 year ago

    I’ve tried hard to get libreoffice and dvddisaster to render in a terminal but for some reason it never works… 😏

    • SteveTech@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      You could probably get it to work in a framebuffer… 😏

      Probably not though, although some apps like mpv, (maybe vlc) and mplayer can, plus QT and a GTK fork have support too.

        • SteveTech@programming.dev
          2·
          1 year ago

          I guess if you have to use a classical terminal or terminal emulator, but I was more talking about drawing apps directly to the Linux console without X or another sort of windowing system.

          For example this is Midori, a web browser:

          • dlarge6510@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            Well yes I thought you were using emulators. When I was a kid I would frequently break X11 so I spent much of my time on the console framebuffer. All I needed it to to is let me watch TV and videos till I was bothered to fix the config file for X

  • mranderson17@infosec.pubEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Because I don’t like things to be behind other things. And I feel like moving windows around is a waste of effort and time, and also requires using the mouse where I wouldn’t normally have to. Tiling windows and using workspaces to organize my work/play/attention works very well for me and helps keep my focus where I want it.

    Also sway in particular, but other tiling window managers too, have better output management than standard DEs. If I’m on output 3 workspace 12 and I want to do something new, any new window I open stays on output 3 workspace 12. I have a lot of displays and not being surprised about where windows open is extremely helpful.

  • s_s@lemmy.one
    13·
    1 year ago

    while having a full desktop environment for all other applications.

    What if I don’t want that?

  • lynny@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    Try managing thousands of images with Unix timestamps for names with only the terminal. Or browsing the web.

    There’s tons of stuff that is simply better done in a GUI.

  • Gobbel2000@feddit.de
    8·
    1 year ago

    Tiling at the window level makes much more sense and is technologically more sound than pushing windowing into the terminal output. Also see this comment by the creator of the kitty terminal emulator.

    • Unwind2046@iusearchlinux.fyi
      1·
      1 year ago

      Quite the interesting read, thanks for sharing!

      Is there any good alternative to tmux’s ability to create sessions and attach/detach from them? It gets installed on all my servers strictly for this ability.

  • SchizoRamblings@vlemmy.net
    6·
    1 year ago

    You can basically have a “full” desktop environment with hyprland+nwg-panel+7 other programs, I’m not sure why nobody has distributed something like this preconfigured though. I’m planning on cooking one up.

  • puzzlebox@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    Every once in awhile i think „yeah, let‘s move to a tiling wm“….but i find myself going back to gnome shortly after, because i can‘t get really used to it, although i really like the concept of tiling WMs…who knows, maybe today is a good day to try it again :)