• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Couldn’t tiling just be done with an app like how PowerToys FancyZones does it on Windows? That way anyone could just install it when wanted.

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      2 months ago

      Those always feel like a half baked hack when compared to a true tiling window manager. At least all the ones I have tried on my work mac I have not found any that are good enough and all have weird edge cases or break in weird ways.

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      2 months ago

      It would need some sort of way to hook into the compositor. PowerToys has it easy because they can just add the necessary APIs to the Windows compositor if it doesn’t already have them. And I feel like compositors would just implement it directly instead of designing an API for it because that’s less complex.