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Re:Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM by pyre on Sunday November 11, 2012 @10:47PM (#4771503)
Criticism: I'll note that after reading both the README and the copy on the frontpage of qtile.org, I still don't know if this is for X11, Windows or OSX. I assume X11, but it's not really explicit.

[ Note: the screenshots give it away, but you have to click first because the thumbnail screenshot on the front page isn't big enough to tell. ]

That said, it's nice to have a tiling WM in a language I know well. I've fiddled with XMonad in the past, but have a very thin knowledge of Haskell (a few times I've tried to do complex things and muddled my way through using the compiler as my guide).

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Re:Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM by emidln on Sunday November 11, 2012 @10:52PM (#4771519)
It mentions XCB in the overview, which gives it away as X11 pretty well (at least it did to me).
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Re:Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM by pyre on Monday November 12, 2012 @01:39AM (#4771852)
I don't think that everyone that knows about/uses X11 knows what XCB is. I didn't off-hand. I knew that there were C bindings for X11, but I didn't know they were referred to as XCB.
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Re:Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM by tych0 on Sunday November 11, 2012 @11:38PM (#4771626)
Hmm, ok. I guess I hadn't even really considered that this was a mistake people would make. Thanks for the input!
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Re:Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM by burntsushi on Sunday November 11, 2012 @11:21PM (#4771589)
Are there tiling window managers for Windows or Mac?
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Re:Qtile 0.5 released – pure Python tiling WM by pyre on Monday November 12, 2012 @01:37AM (#4771847)
They are not true window managers, but IIRC there are at least 1 or 2 programs that allow you to do a limited amount of tiling on OSX. I could see someone writing a program for OSX that listened for window events and did resizing, and then calling is a 'tiling WM' since it was modeled after such for X11. Maybe that's just me over-thinking.
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