[Pfeil]

I always disliked the chaos that happens quickly with application windows, and loved the idea of tiling. But none of them really worked for me practically until I found PaperWM around a year ago or so (gnome extension). It has few core shortcuts and feels more natural. Like you would really arrange applications directly on your desk. It does not limit itself by your screen width and has the nice default that a new window appears to the right of the current window (configurable). You seldomly have the need to re-arrange windows, because the default just fits 99% of all cases. In addition, you still have the comfort of gnome. No hacky config files just to get wifi working or so. For work we have OSX, and I am really missing it there (I am using rectangle there instead). https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM?tab=readme-ov-file#usage

[bsnnkv]

Jwno can do this! https://agentkilo.itch.io/jwno/devlog/871672/scroll-jwno-scr...

[agentkilo]

Thanks for posting the link!

It's a quick-and-dirty PoC with lots of caveats and limitations though. E.g. it works only for a single monitor. I don't think we can clip windows to a "view port" on Windows (the OS), so this may never be as nice as PaperWM, Niri etc.

[Pfeil]

Neat! This looks pretty close, at least for the base principle. If I had a windows machine I would definitely give it a try.

[modzu]

scrolling window management is a new paradigm for me - really liking paper so far, thanks for sharing! (for what its worth, traditionally my approach has been fixed window positions for all applications, and enough screen real estate to support that. but that doesnt work in wayland with any mainstream compositor afaik)