Comment by tlamponi

4 years ago

> I've not seen anyone using a tiling window manage with 32" and larger 4k displays. It's just an awful experience.

I'm using i3 / sway on both, my Workstation's 40" 21:9 (5120x2160) and my private 32" 16:9 4K displays, and see no reason why a bigger display, or one with a higher DPI, would make using a tiling window manager working worse, on the contrary, for me, it's all the more important to have good management if I got more "screen estate" to handle.

IME using tiling WMs on bigger/HiDPI screens is a fantastic experience.

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colinsane  4 years ago

i’m also enjoying sway specifically on large displays. 34” ultrawide (21:9) 3440x1440. i had gnome running on it for a while but i specifically switched to sway because it’s easier to make use of the ridiculous real-estate. i can have like 4 separate vertical splits before it gets cramped. no one wants to manually position 4 windows on a screen.

i also run sway on my 14” laptop simply because i share my OS config between the two machines. i like its workspaces and notifications and being able to tweak `waybar` exactly how i want it, but the actual tiling functionality is pretty useless. at _most_ i’ll do two panes per workspace — at which point you’re in territory any DWM would do well in.

gassiss  4 years ago

When you have a single window in a workspace, isn't it too big? I feel like it would be weird having all my text on the left side of a huge monitor when I only have a single terminal in the workspace

  • tlamponi  4 years ago

    Well I most of the time either split the screen into two halves, which is really nice if one needs to work with more than one application, searching some info on the right, pasting/writing it on the left) or for shells often use tmux and vim split views so that I can look at multiple files/source code lines and still have a ready to use terminal at hand.

    For example, I most of the time use the following layout at work:

      Workspace #1: Split into two stacked sides:
    - on the left there's firefox open (sometimes two windows to
      group tabs)
    - on the right there's my mailer (thunderbird but I dabbled
      with neomutt/notmuch too)
    - either side holds an occasional shell for some local or remote
      maintenance, quick calculation or doing something else

    Example screenshot https://tlmp.it/d/scrot/sway-layout-workspace1.png

    (note I recently switched workstation and while at it I tried to switch from i3 to sway, so the top bar config is really plain due to me having yet to find some time to port over my old i3bar one to waybar or the like)

      Workspace #2: A single big tabbed assembly of terminal windows.
     Each connects to a development VM (different projects and or major
     releases, using Proxmox VE makes managing those VMs quite easy)
     via SSH, in there I'm running tmux with a small screen part for a
     shell on the left side and the remaining part for vim with split
     panes on the right side

    Example screenshot https://tlmp.it/d/scrot/sway-layout-workspace2.png

    Further workspaces are then for ssh windows for more complex real tests on some servers.

    I use a lot of short-lived windows for terminal, browser, pdf-reader, ... and there the tiling window manager really shines, as I can effortless open those in some tens of milliseconds (MOD+Enter for terminals, MOD+D for my general window launcher), check what I need, maybe copy some text to the primary buffer by simply selecting it and then close it again With CTRL+D (EOF) for terminals or MOD+SHIFT+Q for any window.

  • ducktective  4 years ago

    For single terminal in a single workspace, I use gaps around the window to center the terminal window.

    But usually one would need another terminal window by the side of it and that's when I get rid of the gaps.