Why tile?
Why tile?
I feel like my eyes can only look at one thing at a time. I just have shortcuts to switch between programs.
Why do you prefer using a tiling WM and how do you use the tiling functionality in your workflow?
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I don't use an exclusive tiling WM, but prefer a hybrid stacked/tiled approach.
So my argument for the stacked approach (or why I prefer floating windows sometimes) is because sometimes, some of my windows don't really work well as a small tiled space - remote desktop windows for instance. Or sometimes, there's too much white space in a window and resizing it into a tile may make it look weird, like a web page (especially web apps). So tiling doesn't always work for me, so for the most part I prefer floating/stacked windows.
As for tiling, it's great when you've got multiple things you need to refer to, or keep an eye out on. For instance, in my typical tiled work setup, I would have one tile for emails, one for chat, one for my browser, and one is a terminal or IDE. The terminal or IDE would be my main work area, I need the browser open at the same time to look at help or other reference material and maybe copy-paste code, and the emails and chat I need them open to keep an eye on things. I might make use of other monitors or workspaces for other things, like full-screen windows such as remote desktop sessions, or other monitoring stuff.
So for me, both floating and tiling windows are useful, so I prefer a general stacked WM that can also do tiling.
How big is your monitor that you can havel 5 windows open at once and you can still see everything sufficiently? Also whats a stacked WM?
I usually have 4 windows on my 34" QHD monitor (16:10 aspect ratio), the fifth window is usually a full-screen window on a different workspace or monitor.
A stacking WM is a "normal" WM that most people use, like Mutter (Gnome) or kwin (KDE). Also called as floating WM. It's called stacking because windows are organized in a layered stack, one on top of the other, similar to pieces of paper on a desk. They have a "z order", and can be "above" or "below" each other, along the Z axis in the stack.