2009/9/3  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hollunder@gmx.at">hollunder@gmx.at</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I&#39;m using a WM (called awesome) that can do tiling for everyday tasks as<br>


well as audio. Since I have a rather small screen I use it mostly to get<br>
every app fullscreen. When trying to use it for audio I ran in some<br>
trouble. Applications like ardour require a lot of screen estate, on my<br>
screen it hardly fits on the screen. Many other apps have a similar<br>
minimum size that is simply not handled gracefully, at least by this WM.<br>
Another problem is with applications that don&#39;t resize at all or that<br>
apparently can&#39;t be handled in tiling mode. One such example is jkmeter.<br>
<br>
So from my experience with awesome I&#39;d say that it&#39;s theoretically a<br>
nice idea but doesn&#39;t quite work that way. When you look at the<br>
screenshots at tiling WM homepages you see mostly terminals, probably<br>
for a reason. Maybe other WMs work better, but from my experience I&#39;d<br>
say that a WM that remembers window positions or where you could<br>
specify them would probably work better, but I still have to explore<br>
if that&#39;s possible with my WM.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, exactly my thoughts. Tiling WM is simply not a solution as some apps, Ardour primarily, actually _need_ all the space it can get. Not all of us have &gt; 19&quot; or dual monitors even when it&#39;s the age of HD and Blue Ray. In fact, as things go mobile and portable more, the less screen space is favoured.<br>

</div><div><br></div><div>KDE has the potential to provide this 100%, but it needs to smoothen up its cosmetics against usability since wihout compositing (which is a major penalty for Intel graphics) it looks worse than my LXDE environment.</div>