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.

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    KDE has pretty good tiling functionality these days, not much need in using another WM unless you have a very specific workflow in mind

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      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.

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        Everyone’s workflow is different and it could very well be that the plasma tiling features weren’t a good match for the author of that video.

        My tiling needs are pretty simple and I rarely use anything more complicated than a vertical split.

        There were also major changes in the plasma tiling earlier this year so if that video predates the concerns no longer apply.

        You’d probably have to give it a try to see if all the features you need nicely work with a keyboard.

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          I’m in the same boat. I use tiling more when it has virtually zero visible edge and I just get more overall window space. That’s literally all I want tiling for most of the time on any machine. I’m completely content with that.

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    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.

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        xfce and bspwm are both still xorg only afaik. I imagine you should be able to do something similar with wayland and a different de/wm, but I’m not really familiar with wayland.

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        That’s the big thing that keeps me from moving to Wayland and sway. I want a full DE and don’t want to reinvent that wheel but afaik I would have to.

        So it’s i3-gnome-flashback for me for now.

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          That looks promising! Usually. I prefer Plasma, but the tiling options for that aren’t too great either.

          The System76 people are working on tilingein their DE, though.

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            I’ve been through a few tiling WMs and came back to i3. For me it’s the right combo of automatic & manual and malleable. And of course it should be easy to move to Wayland with Sway (effectively i3 for Wayland), but I have held off until I know I can get it in a curated DE as I have no idea to create an environment, I want it to just work.

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    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.

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    There is an extention of Gnome called pop-shell that does exactly what you want

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    I personally use the tiling features recently introduced in plasma. For my needs it works just fine.

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    Theres a gnome extension for tiling. You can also use i3 with xfce (I like wayland so I stopped using that)

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    I really like popOS auto tiling+stacking on gnome, it’s very acessible, you can disable at any time and control most of it just dragging and dropping, even when it fails i usually just pres the key combination two times to reset it, and it organizes itself pretty well.

    On KDE side there where some Kwin scripts that did the same, but they always broke on me, i left kde a while ago, so the scenario may be better now.

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    Yeah I would love to see that too.

    Some distros include community editions of window managers. See EndeavourOS community editions.

    Honestly it’s worth it setting everything up from the ground up. Teaches you a lot about Linux.

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    You can use your favorite windowmanager with your favorite Desktop. That said, KDE has tiling capabilities.

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    You can actually tell KDE to use a window manager other than KWin. I’ve used i3 with KDE like this in the past, and it’s pretty good as long as you tweak the i3 config a bit. Somebody wrote a guide here with the necessary config changes.

    Little disclaimer: I’ve not done this in years, but the linked guide was update recently so I believe it should still work ok.

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    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.

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    I 100% want this too. I currently use GNOME with Pop Shell which works ig but it’s very wonky and buggy with some of the apps. You also cannot really change the layout easily which is criminal. So if a tiling DE was to come out I’d definitely switch to it.