I wish someone would make a tiling desktop environment instead of only a window manager to make them easy to use for all without tweaking because they are the future of the DEs.
If you use a distro based on Ubuntu or Debian (like PopOS and others) I recommend Regolith Desktop. You can install it on an existing setup and it’s ready to go out of the box. You can choose it from the login screen like any other desktop environment like GNOME or KDE. The next version will also bring Sway/Wayland support since obviously X is on its way out in the long term.
The newest KDE Plasma versions have tiling buiilt in. But you can also install Kwin plugin called Krohnkite, which is really neat.
Check our the Sway-based NWG Shell Project.
I use KDE which just added tiling support and will continue to develop in that direction, but Pop!_OS has the best tiling within a desktop environment, as well as short (1 minute) videos showing how to use it. It’s a well designed and mature system that I would recommend.
This is the kind of thing that won my wife over to Pop!_OS, and tiling in general.
KDE has pretty good tiling functionality these days, not much need in using another WM unless you have a very specific workflow in mind
I once saw a video which showed off the built-in Plasma tiling feature and complained that it could not have been developed by a tiling WM user, since it was very inflexible and mouse focused. He could not use it with a keyboard, which kind of defeats the purpose of tiling in the first place.
You can use qtile with gnome
Looking forward to Cosmic DE from Pop!OS, they’re integrating tiling functionality in it.
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-de-tiling-redesign-and-libcosmic-rebasing
I can’t stand tiling environments, apart from Emacs lol.
I use Window Maker which is a classic WM I used back in the 90’s. I used to use XFCE, still do on a couple of laptops, and I thought I would miss the DE stuff that WM obviously didn’t have.
Nope, I just brought in stuff that WM had that made it more useful.
You can use your favorite windowmanager with your favorite Desktop. That said, KDE has tiling capabilities.
You may want to adjust your keyboard
Sure I do. Auto correct gets me all the time.
There is an extention of Gnome called pop-shell that does exactly what you want
Not perfect, but flakey in places, but it does a lot of what you want, it’s tiled gnome.
It is also a bit ancient, isn’t it?
You can do this yourself very easily. I use xfce with bspwm for example, you just have to remove xfwm from the startup applications and replace it with your wm of choice.
That only works on Xorg though, doesn’t it? /g
sway is the i3 like experience for wayland.
I’m using Pop_Os! Since 1.5 years and I basically fell in love with it. I was super annoyed with Gnome not having it and KDE being overkill for my personal use. I’m now using Pop_OS! At home and at work and patently waiting for the coming changes that they’re doing using Rust :)
You can add the same feature to gnome…
