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What are the best tiling window managers for Windows?
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Best tiling window managers for Windows
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HashTWM
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FancyWM
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GlazeWM
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PowerToys
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MIT Licence
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Mosaico
$19.99
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HashTWM
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FancyWM
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Window stacking
While both Groupy and TidyTabs add tabbed or stacked programs to Windows, neither of them has automatic stacking or supports splitting the screen into multiple sections with its own automatic stack.
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Odd glitches
When splitting the screen in half horizontally, sometimes the windows on the right side of the screen will be partially off the screen. Usually only the scroll bar is hidden and resizing the two halves fixes the problem. This program is in its early development stages so odd glitches are bound to happen.
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TallInara's Experience
One of the most promising productivity tools available for Windows. Previously I used a combination of Groupy for tabbed windows, WindowManager for automatic window placement, and AquaSnap to enhance Window's built-in snapping feature. This has the potential to replace all three and is the closest thing you can get to an actual alternative window manager for Windows. I have tried almost every window management product available for Windows and this beats them all hands down.
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Very customizable
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$6.99
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GlazeWM
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GlazeWM
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PowerToys
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PowerToys
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Lack of tabbing windows in the same FancyZone
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Native and supported by Microsoft
No need to install third-party tools, and is efficiently integrated with Windows 10.
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License:
MIT Licence
Platforms:
Windows
Technology:
C++, C#
Required Windows build:
Windows 10 1803 (build 17134) or later
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Mosaico
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Mosaico
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No window snapping
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$19.99
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SplitView
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SplitView
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SplitView
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39$+
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AquaSnap
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AquaSnap
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Free for personal use only
The free version is also very limited. For example, no window tiling or multi monitor support.
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Very CPU and memory efficient
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Like Windows Snap, but better
Essentially the Windows Snap feature but allowing for more than a 4 quadrant set up.
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Very advanced tiling window management
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Simple to use, don't need to change your habits
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bug.n
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Based on hotkeys
A lot of the other alternatives are GUI based, which are very inefficient compared to the hotkey approach of bug.n.
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Some applications need manual configuration to have them work well
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Very customizable
You can radically change the way bug.n works to suit yourself, although it takes a little bit of work some times.
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Disabled very easily (windows+ctrl+q)
This is especially helpful while learning to use bug.n.
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Handy resource monitor
Has an own conky style resources monitor in its statusbar showing cpu/ram/disk reads/writes, network uploads/downloads and time.
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Customizable through config files
Just like DWM, bug.n is configured through a plain text file. This is a great resource for setting up your configuration. Original link is down, try this one for the Archive.org copy.
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Supports multiple monitors
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Open Source
bug.n is free and open sourced.
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Saves a lot of windows space
Bug.n can increase the available screen estate by freeing up the space occupied by the Microsoft Windows Taskbar & the title bar for every single window by hiding and replacing all with a single slim status bar. The status bar shows the current config of your window setup & can also show system information like time, date and memory usage.
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Dynamic Tiling Window management
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komorebi
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WHKD is great nonetheless
Whkd is Windows Hotkey Daemon which is also another program written by the same author. The whkd manages your shortcuts and when triggered with a specific shortcut runs the specified command in your preferred shell. This program makes shortcuts a breeze because it's as simple as configure your whkdrc and add some shortcuts. You can write your scripts and assign them to a shortcut of your choice to make it more efficent working inside the system.
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Little bit glitchy
It can be glitcy at times while configuring. The active window borders for example does not disappear for me when I specified the program as one that goes full screen. It disappears after I refocus on the app but not when, for example, switching to a workspace where app which can go full screen exists and when it does the borders are still visible.
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RobustPortunes's Experience
Configuring it seems easier for me because it tries to mimic bspwm. bspwm is configured through its special cli utility. It makes the configuration part very easy because all you need to do is write a powershell script with the name komorebi.ps1! You can also find some default configurations recommended in the github page.
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Easy to configure
Because it is configured by a cli program, "komorebic", its available options are listed there(run komorebic --help to see the options) and can be changed in run-time. However, the changes you make will be for that session unless you write your configuration settings to its startup script named "komorebi.ps1" in your home folder.
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Works with yasb
yasb has native support for komorebi
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Amethyst Windows
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Amethyst Windows
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Integrated Windows 10 virtual desktops
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Windows 10 only (build 10.0.16299.0 minimum)
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TranquilPhylonoe's Experience
Best TWM for Windows 10 I have found yet!
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Available for x86, x86-64 and ARM architectures
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Open source
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Automatic updates
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Supports multi-monitor set-ups
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Fully customizable shortcuts
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