GNOME Devs Are Working on a New Window Management System
GNOME devs are envisioning a new, unconventional window management system for the GNOME desktop environment using a mosaic tiling behavior.
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I think this looks amazing. I do like the behaviour of tiling WMs, but having a DE is too comfy for me to give up. This could possibly bring the bestof both worlds.
There are already ways to have tiling and a DE.
On GNOME, there's PaperWM, although it's not quite traditional tiling either.
On KDE Plasma 5.27+, you can use Polonium. For versions before 5.27, Bismuth.
And on Xfce or LXQt, it's often possible to use them with a traditional tiling WM, like i3wm, bspwm etc..
There's also Forge for GNOME.
I've been using Krohnkite on KDE. Are those you mentioned better?
Krohnkite went unmaintained a while ago, which is when Bismuth forked from it. So, Bismuth is basically a straight upgrade. The dev implemented tons of features, which you may or may not need, but I think, there were also some fixes for stability and Plasma version compatibility.
Polonium came about, because Plasma 5.27 introduced a (manual) tiling system of its own, which partially broke Bismuth, but also meant it made sense to develop a new KWinScript, which makes use of this native system.
As such, it is a step back from Bismuth. I think, it's roughly comparable to Krohnkite in terms of features now, but still a very young project, so not as stable yet...
Interesting! Krohnkite still works so well for my use case that I didn't even realize it was unmantained. I'll give those two a shot!
I've tried all 3 and krohnkite felt like the more polished, can't tell you which doesn't do what but the others felt a bit clunky in the way they handled resizes and such
Try out Pop Shell. Its works very well on my Fedora installs.
Seconding Pop Shell. Very simple install via Gnome extension and it works wonderfully on my daily driver Ubuntu install.
I really can't stress how good PaperWM is in combination with a touchpad. I wouldn't recommend it at all on a mouse-only environment, but when you can use multitouch gestures to scroll through the workspace it works really well.
Chiming in with another great alternative, Tactile lets you tile windows and stack at the same time. Between the Tactile hotkeys, Alt+Tab and Alt+~ I never need to use the mouse for window manipulation anymore.
You could try Pop!_OS. There you get the full DE, plus tiling implemented by a GNOME extension. You can also just install that extension, of course, or another.
