Sway 1.0 - Hackdot

Re:Sway 1.0 by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday March 11, 2019 @02:25PM (#19361420)

What I've been thinking is, why can't we have both? Imagine just two changes: a workspace's mode can be switched between tiling and floating, and additional workspaces are just windows. Now you can have any combination of floating and tiling that makes sense to you. You could, for instance, set your desktop to tiling mode and open two new workspace windows, the switch one to floating and run your GUI desktop stuff on the left side of the screen and several terminal tiles on the right.

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Re:Sway 1.0 by wink on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:45AM (#19367552)

This is the mode how I run Windows with WinSplit Revolution.

It doesn't change anything by default, but with alt-keypad I move certain windows to the upper left, upper right, bottom right, bottom left and so most open applications have their exact position, but everything else is floating.

I guess I'd use a full blown tiling WM if there was one, though, I don't really see any downsides once you configured it to your preference. So bad for new machines, good for regular use. (for me).

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Re:Sway 1.0 by irth on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:35PM (#19363067)

I think AwesomeWM allows that

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Re:Sway 1.0 by leshow on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:41PM (#19363123)

I used awesome for a few years and while I think you're correct to say it does try to do both, in reality it ends up doing neither very well, IMO.

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