[_TwoFinger]

Just an idea, if you find yourself unable to warm up to tiling:

  for_window [all] floating enable

It's stupid, but I've been using this for a couple of years now.

[bee_rider]

That’s interesting. So do you start the programs floating, and then put them in tiling mode sometimes? Or just avoid tiling completely? (It seems like that would be giving up a lot of the specific strengths of the window manager… but of course if it works for you, it works!)

[_TwoFinger]

I don't use the tiling at all.

I use the multiple desktops feature a lot, though. Some programs are pinned to a dedicated desktop and run all day. Others I start in (or move to, later) a numbered desktop, and switch to them by changing the desktop. Often, most of the desktops contain only one window.

I once used i3 and sway the right way, of course. I guess I had one too many of those programs that were not designed to work at arbitrary window sizes, added the above rule and called it a day.

[ericd]

Oh cool, didn’t realize i3 could be used non-tiling. Thanks!