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Why tile? (lemmy.world)

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I feel like my eyes can only look at one thing at a time. I just have shortcuts to switch between programs.

Why do you prefer using a tiling WM and how do you use the tiling functionality in your workflow?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The only thing I tile is windows on the secondary vertical monitor, simple stack of two windows on top of each other. There it works well, as that monitor mostly gets used for monitoring long running processes, webcam for the 3d printer and stuff like that. It's not windows I actively engage with, but just something running at the side to keep an eye on.

For my main monitor I never quite saw the point. I don't like windows being off to the side, creates too much perspective distortion on a big monitor to be comfortable to look at, I like them in the center. When I put a window in the center, there isn't enough space left to the sides to do much useful with, even a simple shell starts line breaking in ugly ways.

I do tile inside Emacs, but even there it's mostly just a simple vertical tile (code at the top, compiler output at the bottom).