Talk:Tiling window manager

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Rename or extend?[edit]

This entry is strictly about X window managers, but its title suggests a more general scope. I was expecting to read about Windows 1.0 or the split-screen buffers used e.g. by Oberon and Emacs and many other text editing environments. (In fact, many application use splitters to divide the window area into tiles the size of which the user can change.) —Tobias Bergemann 11:25, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

merge[edit]

Oppose - This article should be about all tiling Window managers, not just X ones. — Omegatron 18:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Tiling emulation by stacking?[edit]

Should this article really all the stacking WMs that merely emulate tiling by resizing so they don't overlap? To me, tiling is more of a strategy that a visual effect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.85.42.110 (talk) 23:03, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

scrotwm -> spectrwm[edit]

The authors seem to have formed a business and changed the name to something more "respectable". Scrotwm.org now redirects to opensource.conformal.com. --188.100.144.69 (talk) 14:24, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Possible bias in spetrwm section[edit]

The language in the subsection about the spectrwm window manager sounds like an advertisement, since it is taken directly from the GitHub page for the application. Suggest revising so it is more impartial and informative about the application's features. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlmostNever (talk • contribs) 14:58, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update Windows section for Windows 11[edit]

Windows 11 contains some improvements for tiling, such as hovering on the maximize button to open a tiling menu. 2600:1016:B10C:95F1:41C0:2C0E:9EC6:FA5C (talk) 17:43, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]