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minus-squareKnusper@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·11 months agoThere are already ways to have tiling and a DE. On GNOME, there’s PaperWM, although it’s not quite traditional tiling either. On KDE Plasma 5.27+, you can use Polonium. For versions before 5.27, Bismuth. And on Xfce or LXQt, it’s often possible to use them with a traditional tiling WM, like i3wm, bspwm etc…
minus-squareeclipse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoTry out Pop Shell. Its works very well on my Fedora installs.
minus-squaretheDodosConundrum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoSeconding Pop Shell. Very simple install via Gnome extension and it works wonderfully on my daily driver Ubuntu install.
minus-squarenik282000@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoChiming in with another great alternative, Tactile lets you tile windows and stack at the same time. Between the Tactile hotkeys, Alt+Tab and Alt+~ I never need to use the mouse for window manipulation anymore.
There are already ways to have tiling and a DE.
On GNOME, there’s PaperWM, although it’s not quite traditional tiling either.
On KDE Plasma 5.27+, you can use Polonium. For versions before 5.27, Bismuth.
And on Xfce or LXQt, it’s often possible to use them with a traditional tiling WM, like i3wm, bspwm etc…
There’s also Forge for GNOME.
Try out Pop Shell. Its works very well on my Fedora installs.
Seconding Pop Shell. Very simple install via Gnome extension and it works wonderfully on my daily driver Ubuntu install.
Chiming in with another great alternative, Tactile lets you tile windows and stack at the same time. Between the Tactile hotkeys, Alt+Tab and Alt+~ I never need to use the mouse for window manipulation anymore.