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Re:A tiling window manager written in Rust by Shish2k on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @12:46PM (#8763279)
> You can control nearly everything from the keyboard

Personally I'm still waiting for a tiling WM with mouse support - having used a few keyboard based WMs, and having used Eclipse, I find Eclipse to be by far the nicest. The only problem being that it's an application panel manager, not an X windows manager :(

The features I want from a WM: http://shimmie.shishnet.org/v2/_images/ae13a6ed6a5d725f34d10...

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Re:A tiling window manager written in Rust by codingbinary on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @01:33PM (#8763525)
Ok, for the dragging part I would have to come up with something, but theoretically, your desired features are possible. I just need some spare time to implement the layout plugins and come up with a good way to handle keyboard shortcuts in nested splits.
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Re:A tiling window manager written in Rust by scrollaway on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @02:13PM (#8763739)
kwin is working on this. They ripped the tiling logic from the core somewhat recently but I believe they either added it back as an addon, or are in the process of doing so. You can email their ML for more info.
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Re:A tiling window manager written in Rust by rmk2 on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @01:03PM (#8763373)
i3wm lets you resize both floating and tiled windows via the mouse. You can also decide where the systembar goes.
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