I love WMs but sometimes I wish there was also a fully featured WM (like a DE) for lazy people.
Because sometimes I can’t be bothered customizing the configs and I would just rather have a slightly more bloated setup but with faster customization and some features out of the box without to much researching.
But in my perspective, in terms of work flow WMs are just the way to compute efficiently.
Do you have any suggestions of projects that might be out there that do fill this niche?
Very interesting, but I do wish there was a equivalent but based on a dynamic tilling WM
Regolith + autotiling (https://github.com/nwg-piotr/autotiling)
You use the autotiling script to make i3 dynamic
Have you tried the PopOS DE? That may scratch what you’re looking for
Cosmic DE right? I might give it a go and see how it goes 👍
Cosmic DE is currently in Alpha and not being used in Pop!_OS yet. ATM, Pop!_OS uses tweaked-out GNOME 4 with a custom tiling WM called pop-shell.
Cosmic will probably release with the next major release of Pop!_OS, which is usually just after the next major release of Ubuntu every April.
i’ve used kde with bismuth for a long time. now it’s dying… polonium is it’s successor but still a long way ahead.
i have high hopes for cosmic
For me this is Gnome with the pop shell extension. It’s so much better than plain i3 in usability and just as good with tiling. Using i3 for years made me appreciate the value of a proper modern desktop environment.
Are you asking for a gnome extension like g Forge https://github.com/forge-ext/forge or https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM ?
More like traditional dynamic tilling WM
There’s wayblue https://github.com/wayblueorg/wayblue which sounds like what you want
I think most tiling WMs are more for the keyboard based workflows that are less discoverable for the casual user using someone else’s config.
True, but it would be pretty nice to have a sort of KDE or gnome type project but WM style
I think gnome team said they were experimenting with tiling features. I’m looking forward to checking what they came up with.
As others have said, that’s basically pop shell. Cosmic will be out of alpha at some point this year, but you don’t need to wait for that to get started. I’ve been using pop os on my personal machine, and Ubuntu gnome with the pop-shell gnome extension for many years and it works great. Pretty much zero config and it is super easy to set up and get started.
I think you can get tiling on both KDE Plasma and GNOME. I know it exists for Plasma but not sure about GNOME.
Plasma lets you change WM: https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Using_Other_Window_Managers_with_Plasma
I tried with bspwm and it works well, you can also disable Plasma’s keyboard shortcuts if you want to use sxhkd.
In KDE Plasma, Super + T brings up a built in tiling feature. It’s super basic, but allows you to set static window snap zones on any display.
Each zone can be split horizontally or vertically, and you can adjust the zone-gaps to the exact pixel you want.
It’s not dynamic as far as I know, but for me it’s all I need.
Once you go back into regular desktop mode, you can use the zone snaps by holding shift while you drag a window. Releasing the window while holding shift will snap the window into the current snap zone it’s closest to.
If you want just boot your system and not have to worry about setting up keybindings, my best suggest is ArcoLinuxB i3 Edition and Garuda Linux i3 flavor, you really don’t have to worry at all for that, and you can use the i3 reference card to learn the most common keybindigs.
I would recommend arcolinux hyprland
For me the main config difficulty is from the statusbar. Polybar, Eww, are harder to config comparing to the WM. I solved that with Tint2 bar. It can be configured from an GUI, for the basics. The only code I added to config is simple.
execp_command = xdotool getwindowfocus getwindownameIt prints the window name on the bar. It is useful for bspwm windows.
Manjaro Sway.
