Re:A Tiling Desktop Environment
by dtn on Sunday June 02, 2019 @09:56AM
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https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n exists for Windows
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Yes, I tried using that multiple times. It's very buggy / not suitable for full time usage (which is funny given its name).
I've been using it everyday for ~6 months and find that it's fantastic for full time usage.
The only feature that it doesn't have out-of-the-box is an "always on top" option for floating windows (but can be implemented by running a separate AHK script).
Are you using the stable version or something else?
When I ran the stable version a few months ago it didn't even act like a tiled window manager. After you open it, all it did was tile a bunch of existing windows automatically, but then if you tried to resize them, it only resized the window that had mouse focus.
i3 would have resized all of the windows to fit so there's no gaps.
Overall it just felt very flaky and it had a lot of screen flickering when moving things around.