Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Date: 7 Jun 2025 18:49:06 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <87zfekwwml.fsf@ezaquarii.com> <68441a5d$0$11457$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net O1QbJesFi4ZAE1oEdkWmKwQYG7o7ftIaSZOOTUjAPwmVcABwv7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MEDes/J6j738bPApLHqwnBVMiKE= sha256:YuKroY05iEn8FVPY45CA7m8jdhvLiv0srd+/PFTDkvY= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68511 On 07 Jun 2025 10:54:21 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > Maybe the Tilling Window Managers were inspired by Emacs. Or Vim which, > unlike Emacs which is a full OS, is only a text editor. And some people > wanted to have the same way of managing their applications than they > used to manage their config files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0 Windows 2.0 went to stacking after Microsoft won a lawsuit by Apple. Tiling had been done before that, I think by Xerox. I think tiling would be an easier approach, not having to worry about z levels. I use Pan and you could say it's tiled within the app but I don't think I'd care for a tiling manager, too many decades with stacking managers.