Comment on GitHub - paperwm/PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell
hallettj@beehaw.org 9 months ago
I’ve been using this for maybe a couple of years, and I love it! I like that windows stay at the sizes I set them to, and at the same time I can put as many windows in a workspace as I want.
PaperWM is not bug-free, but an active dev community has grown around it, and they do a lot of work to keep it running as smoothly as possible. That includes the essential task of working around breaking extension API changes when new Gnome releases are coming.
I’ve also been keeping an eye on Niri which applies the same idea to a standalone window manager. I haven’t switched because Niri doesn’t currently implement XWayland. But it looks like Wine is getting closer to native Wayland support so XWayland might not be a requirement for me for much longer.
juli@programming.dev 9 months ago
I see. I already found out that maximizing lags a little on my machine.
What’s the point in moving from gnome to niri with the same functionality?
hallettj@beehaw.org 9 months ago
PaperWM has columns - you can move multiple windows into a column (Super+I by default, or Super+O to move a window out of a column). When you move windows left or right or resize horizontally the column moves or resizes as a group. That’s the only feature that groups windows.
I mention Niri because I’m interested to see more implementations of the same idea. The only other scrolling window manager I know of is CardboardWM which is long dead. A native implementation like Niri might be able to explore ideas that are difficult to implement in an extension.
juli@programming.dev 9 months ago
Got it, thx