[HN Gopher] Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager
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       Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager
        
       Author : SamWhited
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2022-02-20 01:32 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | Gualdrapo wrote:
       | This is reminiscent of Gnome's PaperWM [0]. Not a Gnome user and
       | just had the chance to try it for less than an hour, but the
       | experience in my head sounded better than it was in reality -
       | though was more of 'unexpected behavior' things than faults in
       | the concept.
       | 
       | I think this approach tries to solve the 'cramming too much
       | windows in a single virtual desktop' that sometimes can be felt
       | with tiling WMs. For example, when I'm drawing something in Krita
       | I'd want to see some references of what I'm drawing - I'd just
       | scroll a bit to unveil an adjacent Falkon window to browse some
       | images on the internet, do some strokes and scroll back to
       | Krita's window - without having to resize it in half.
       | 
       | [0] https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
        
         | operator-name wrote:
         | I've sadly had a similar experience with System 76's Pop
         | Shell[0]. That said I suspect graphical workloads and
         | applications designed around conventional sizes and aspec
         | ratios are generally not well suites for TWMs.
         | 
         | [0]: https://github.com/pop-os/shell
        
       | drekipus wrote:
       | Interesting take, but I can't see much use for it perhaps. I'd
       | probably prefer vertical scrolling, and to be frank I did
       | something like this a long time ago by setting my Xorg screen
       | settings to be larger than my monitor (and then scrolling around
       | with the mouse). Tie that with a tiling window manager like
       | awesomeWM so that you can configure while you work and it should
       | work out to be just about the same experience.
       | 
       | Highly appreciative of people trying new things though, I will
       | never shut down people's desire to experiment. More power to them
       | I say, one day someone might stumble into something that really
       | _really_ works wonders.
       | 
       | edit: sorry, I thought the project WAS PaperWM. but no it's
       | cardboard that has been inspired by PaperWM.
        
       | skavi wrote:
       | Is it just me or is their demo video flickering?
        
       | unfocussed_mike wrote:
       | "exciting"
       | 
       | More like hell on earth.
        
         | throwaway984393 wrote:
         | ............ Why?
        
       | habitue wrote:
       | This is cool. Would be good to see vertical scrolling as well
        
       | DiggyJohnson wrote:
       | How ready is this to replace i3?
        
         | danuker wrote:
         | > The WM isn't suitable for day-to-day use by most users. It
         | doesn't support drag-and-drop and other features most people
         | would consider being necessities.
        
       | coldblues wrote:
       | Truly awesome. This might be a game-changer for laptops. If I
       | were actively using a laptop, I would definitely be using this.
        
         | unfocussed_mike wrote:
         | Why not use a series of full-screen apps like in Monterey?
         | 
         | I don't get it. Horizontal scrolling is such a jarring
         | experience.
        
           | gjvc wrote:
           | content vertical, context horizontal. Not so revolutionary.
        
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