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Re:Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager by Lramseyer on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:22PM (#30448085)
Maybe this is a bit of a ridiculous idea, but what about natively supporting tabs in a window manager? While it would probably be impractical to force all applications to support tabs, it would be nice to be able to rearrange elements/windows of work/productivity apps as such.
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Re:Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager by sidpatil on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:25PM (#30449527)
BeOS and Haiku support this natively. So does Essence [1].

On Linux, I usually use i3 and arrange windows in tabbed or stacked layouts. Other tiling window managers may offer similar functionality.

On Windows, I like to use TidyTabs [2]. This is a paid product, but it works really well.

[1] https://nakst.gitlab.io/essence

[2] https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs

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Re:Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager by unfocussed_mike on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:54PM (#30448417)
This is not that far from the way macOS does it, where apps can go full-screen as if they were single-app virtual desktops.

You can flick between the apps, but the useless situation where apps are half-off the screen, like the wretched Metro interface on Windows, does not occur.

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Re:Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager by ruined on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @07:02PM (#30448504)
kde has supported this for years, and pretty much every tiling wm allows similar configuration
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Re:Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager by pdosev on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:54PM (#30448408)
A lot of tiling WMs, for example i3, already support that. It can be useful when you want to hide a window like a long running terminal session, but I usually go to a new virtual desktop instead
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Re:Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager by _dain_ on Thursday February 24, 2022 @12:19PM (#30457460)
This is precisely what tabbed does: https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/
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Re:Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager by mmgutz on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:32PM (#30449572)
For Windows, Groupy is a utility to group and tab windows. Works well with the built in snapping of Windows. Buy it on Steam and you can use it on up to five computers IIRC.
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Re:Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager by isr on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @08:48PM (#30449313)
fluxbox ;-)
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