Scrolling Window Managers Are My New Best Friend

sooooooo tilling magagers but workspaces are fluid ?

I've never understood scrollees lol. I'd be happy with a tiling WM that maybe has panels you can slide out that overlap halves of the screen so you can have that quick peek app open to compare things or whatever.

Scrolling just seems like a nightmare to manage and remember all that you have open.

yess, scroll with us, brodie.

Niri is the GOAT

Combine this with workspaces for resource allocation and it is perfect

1) добавить миникарту как в стратегиях;
2) разрешить скроллить во всех направлениях;
3) добавить связывание окон в группы;
4) это говно наконец-то можно будет реально использовать)

very cool, hope i can get this working with cosmic someday.

EDIT: Oh okay hyprland does have an option yay

This should be good for my Mom's laptop though!

I use Karousel on KDE Plasma daily, and once you get it configured it is absolutely fantastic! I highly recommend it.

Using it for years now. It's a pragmatic hybrid. Love it

Brodie "scrolling" Robertson. Every time you open a new terminal it opens with Fastfetch. Why? What's the purpose? Takes up a lot of workspace in the terminal. I never use works spaces on Xfce. I don't see the need for it nor know what they are meant for. Still a noob after 8 years on Linux.

I don't know, with workspace you can use keybinding and move around, 2-5 virtual spaces suffice.

Im a "live on the edge" kinda guy, been using niri since 0.1.1 (basically as soon as i found it), had rough edges, but it improved considerably with time, and pretty fast as well. Love it. YaLTeR is the GOAT, very friendly and responsive as well, used to bug report quite a bit in the early days on matrix and things got fixed literally in less than a week most of the time (sometimes same day)

This is pretty much exactly the way I use gnome. Niri's been on my radar for a while, but the gnome application launching workflow keeps me coming back.

Been playing with Niri for a few weeks. Loving it so far.

And I agree with the need for workspaces, I was using RiverWM for the longest time, and had around 15 workspaces for most of my apps,

But on Niri, I feel comfortable with 3 defined workspaces.
A Scratchpad workspace, a media workspace for Music, Docs, Games etc.

And a Main workspace where I just open anything I want

I must recommend maomaowm by DreamMaoMao, it has scrolling layout, but anytime u can switch back to stacking or tiling, thats the philosophy of maomao. Its very active now at early stages, so things might not be perfect

This is my favorite wm by far, just can get around not being able to launch certain apps that need x11.

i've been using paperWM for more than a year, it always confuse the people trying to use my computer, but once i explain it to them, the instantly get it, and want one as well, even among non tech people
i wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a more widespread paradigm, maybe even something that windows implements natively in 20 years.

Nice explanation of the scrolling concept and its relation to workspaces! This is pretty much how I use them too: a browser workspace, a chat workspace, then workspaces per project. More granular if needed, e.g. if I need to open GIMP for the same project and go back and forth with it, I'll put it on a new workspace too.

For this reason I also think that full 2D scrolling like newm would be more awkward. When workspaces represent different projects, why would you want them "tied together" in a 2D grid?

Reminds me of the old virtual desktops from the late 90's/early 2k.

That’s actually pretty cool. Not heard of this before.

You went from niche to useless window manager :D
Next: tiling scrolling 3d window manager!
Please somebody buy a monitor to Brodie! :D

Super cool stuff! I also like that you went a bit back to your roots and show case software again. Hope to see more of that, but if not, that's okay too. Have a nice day, homie! <3

I'm using KDE as a tiling desktop - all my tiles are full screen (rarely half-screen for which Plasma's quick tiling actions are sufficient).
My work flow is pretty static (in terms of windows used) so I have 6 workspaces, 4 used for specific things with 2 or 3 windows each (2 screens: 1 always maximized the other either maximized or split) and 2 used for throw away windows.
I like using workspaces because they have keyboard bindings which means I never hunt for a window I need - no idly scrolling around looking for a thing - like rooms in your house, you know where your stove at, so if you want to cook you go to the kitchen and if you want to sleep you go to the bedroom, if I want a terminal its on META F1, If I want to email it's on META F3, etc.

I really liked niri but had some issues with certain apps, ended up just kind of hacking workspaces into a scroller by using meta+alt+scroll to change workspace...

I think it's basically just tabs

Yes brodie, I check the whitboard at the very beginning of the video.

I installed Niri and it killed my GPU driver. After a week I still have no idea what happened and wasn't able to fix it. So I had to downgrade the kernel to 6.1 and install amdgpu-install

Why not just open everything maximized and use ALT+TAB....

Being a KDE user, I find it similar to Activities.

I haven't used Niri yet, but people who i've met from the community are so nice. It makes me feel good about the project, and want to try it.

No I do not want tiling.

Noob... Just buy more monitors.






This is a joke.

I think I'd just stick to custom workspaces and TMUX.

macOS is less of a stacking window manager and more of a pita window manager

dwm tabs alternative number 3.9⨯10²⁵

Nice wallpaper lol

i thought i'm done with my hyprland setup...

I'm reminded of another dead project called newm, which did basically this, but on a 2D plane that you could tile out in any direction and zoom/scroll around.

It was a little clunky when I tried it, but I'm disappointed it never really matured because I liked the idea.

So, paperwm.spoon is only useful on a single display. Mac OS's windows manager is shit and this is a limitation.

This is kind of what Metro was supposed to do for the Windows Start Menu, but most people hated it.

I personally work using four workspaces and keep scrolling horizontally across them, so I would be open to trying a WM like this.

never understood people who need window managers of any kind...

ooo, I never liked workspaces, but I love this concept. I'm going to need some Hanna Barbera style infinitely horizontal backgrounds

I believe the COSMIC window groups and window tabs would achieve something similar. Can't wait!

Been using them for a while now. Conventional TWMs never appealed me. For those who don't a new window manager and want to save their time, paperwm is a nice option. You can enable it, play with it and disable it whenever you want.

I just use tabs in sway. Basically the same thing

maybe check out newm-next also another scolling window manager. It is written in python.