eretc.blogg.se - Linux best window manager for multiple monitors

Snapping to a single zone with the mouseįirst, drag the window. When you drag a window into a zone, or enter the associated keyboard shortcut, the window is resized and repositioned to fill that zone. FancyZones allows you to define a set of zone locations to be used as targets for windows on your desktop. Hopefully I will find out how to effectively emulate this behavior in other window managers.FancyZones is a window manager utility for arranging and snapping windows into efficient layouts to improve the speed of your workflow and restore layouts quickly. Xmonad has greatly increased my productivity with two monitors and it’s hard for me to switch away from it for this reason. So far my biggest problem with switching to other window managers has been the lack of “1 workspace per monitor” support.

I have had problems with xmonad recently and I have been trying to switch back to a more popular window manager with free-floating windows like Gnome, KDE, Xfce, or Openbox. I wish more window managers would at least make this kind of workspace/monitor handling an option. Since using xmonad, I have found “1 workspace per monitor” window management much more productive and comfortable. In xmonad, the workspace that contains the video can be placed on one monitor and the visible workspace on the other monitor can changed freely without interfering with the first monitor. In most window managers this restricts me to one workspace because changing workspaces would change both monitors. For example I may want a video to stay on one monitor while I work on the other monitor. There are many times when I want to be able to keep one monitor static while changing the other monitor.

When removing a monitor, one less workspace will be displayed.

When the workspace on one monitor changes the workspace on the other monitor does not need to change.

Each monitor displays one workspace at a time (ex: monitor 1 currently showing workspace 3 and monitor 2 currently showing workspace 1).

Each additional monitor allows another workspace to be visible.

When removing a monitor, workspaces must shrink in size, bunching windows together.

When the workspace changes, both monitors change.

One large workspace is visible at a time (ex: workspace 1 spans across all monitors).Each additional monitor extends the workspace size.

Paradigm difference between these two WM styles: Instead of increasing the workspace size to fit onto two monitors, each monitor displays a separate workspace, so the number of visible workspaces is increased. Since January I have been using a window manager that handles multiple monitors very differently, xmonad. In most window managers (WMs) that allow for multiple workspaces, additional monitors simply increase the size of each workspace.