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I Finally Tried Niri, The New Way Of Tiling Linux Users Are Going Crazy About (feed.itsfoss.com)

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[–] greco@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you have ever lost track of your editor because Firefox decided to squish it into a 200-pixel-wide column, you know exactly how jarring that can be.

so, instead, your terminal is lost off the edge of the screen.

doesn't tabbed window layout address this issue?

I guess this is more like if tabbed window layout doesn't fit your brain model, here is an alternative that maybe does, i just struggle to find much of a difference. maybe this is just easy mode for split window tabs?

either way, i love that there are options.

[–] Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

Technically yes but tabs are modal: You have to leave the tabbed mode to look at more than one window at once, and then the third window that opens will cause one of them or both to resize. Then you need to fix that by moving it to a new workspace or the tab container.

The idea is that with scrolling, the resizing behaviour is always opt-in. New windows will never resize any existing ones, independent of any "mode" or which element you have focused.

It's not for everyone (personally I realized after a few months that I did not actually like scrolling, I just put up with it), but I do think it's a comparable paradigm shift as going from a stacking WM to a tiling one. Sure you can create tiling layouts on almost all stacking WMs fairly easily with simple mnemonic keyboard shortcuts, but using it feels different, if that makes sense?

[–] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I still miss KDE4SC's tabbed windows. It was the shit.

I hope they can come back sometime.

(That being said I like Niri's concept but I don't wanna install yet another WM, I'm using the karousel kwin script which pretty much does the same thing)