Re:Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm
by linsomniac on Sunday August 25, 2024 @10:39AM
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>I never understood the appeal of tiling
I like physical positional cues, and being able to just flick my eyes over to other things to check status rather than having to scroll through hidden context. I have a terrible habit of losing my train of thought if I check on something that's hidden, and thereby hide my current work. So just being able to glance and then glance back is a huge plus.
I also have an insane amount of screen real estate on my work machine (2x 4K 30" displays, 1x 2K 15"), so I can have everything on screen at once. I mostly use terminals, a couple browsers, and slack, so YMMV if you are using a bunch of IDE-like windows or the like.
I like physical positional cues, and being able to just flick my eyes over to other things to check status rather than having to scroll through hidden context. I have a terrible habit of losing my train of thought if I check on something that's hidden, and thereby hide my current work. So just being able to glance and then glance back is a huge plus.
I also have an insane amount of screen real estate on my work machine (2x 4K 30" displays, 1x 2K 15"), so I can have everything on screen at once. I mostly use terminals, a couple browsers, and slack, so YMMV if you are using a bunch of IDE-like windows or the like.