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What's the best tiling window manager for a Linux beginner?

Published on: 2025-06-22 16:07:56

ZDNET A tiling window manager can be a wonder of productivity and efficiency. Click to open an app, and the window manager will place that app in the best possible location on your desktop. Say you click the Firefox icon with nothing on your display. A tiling window manager will automatically open a maximized Firefox window, such that it takes up the entire screen. Then, you might want to open Spotify, at which point the window manager will move Firefox to the left side of the screen, and Spotify will take up the right half. Open a terminal window, and it might split the right side of the display with Spotify. When you want to navigate from app to app, move a window, etc., you use keyboard shortcuts. Also: This fun tiling window manager may be rough around the edges - but it has big potential And that, my friends, is the complexity of tiling window managers: you have to learn a lot of keyboard shortcuts. On top of that, some tiling window managers require you to configure things v ... Read full article.