Tux Training

Like your large monitor but tire of getting everything to just fit on the screen? I got tired of it a while back and switched to wmii, but now I have been trying out xmonad, another tiling window manager.

A tiling window manager arranges your windows in a grid. This maximizes window sizes and prevents any window from obscuring another.   In other words, unless you have transparency going on, or switch to a viewing area with no windows open; you won’t see your desktop.   Here’s a screenshot courtesy of  pbrisbin.

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In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.

There are many TWMs to chose from, below covers  the most popular ones around.

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