Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009)
by jeroenhd on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:11AM
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On Linux there are a whole bunch of tiling window managers that do this. i3 is probably the most famous one. I use Pop_OS shell on Manjaro to combine GNOME and tiled windows (with sadly very limited customizability on window positioning) which works quite well; it's tiling windows without the need to remember a billion system specific shortcuts.
On Windows you now have FancyZones, part of the Windows power pack thing Microsoft provides on Github, which allows you to draw areas you can snap windows into. Windows 11 even has some common window layouts built right in.
More traditional Linux desktops (like MATE) will probably try to avoid this paradigm, as they're more about sticking to what works than experimenting with new stuff. However, I think I see a trend where some sort of tiling is becoming part of more and more desktop environments.
On Windows you now have FancyZones, part of the Windows power pack thing Microsoft provides on Github, which allows you to draw areas you can snap windows into. Windows 11 even has some common window layouts built right in.
More traditional Linux desktops (like MATE) will probably try to avoid this paradigm, as they're more about sticking to what works than experimenting with new stuff. However, I think I see a trend where some sort of tiling is becoming part of more and more desktop environments.