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It's disappointing that i3 is constrained to one window. The ability to replace Microsoft's window manager with i3 and allow linux and windows apps to be nicely tiled together would be amazing.

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Now, it ain't tiling, but I once worked (not as the first guy, but took it over as a major project and the hell out of it) was one of the ports of Opebox-ish Windows managers (to be more accurate, really an Explorer replacement shell, not a Windows manager traditionally) to Windows XP to build very stripped down Windows kiosk machines with minimal UI and a lot of control, custom UI, and cool fun features.

http://www.lsdev.org/doku.php

God I miss this. It was way ahead of the time and I guess Microsoft got their UI act together, then lost it, and are trying to find it again.

As for tiling, the best you can do are these:

https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n

https://github.com/ZaneA/HackWM

The latter is by a budding Chicken Lisp; I found him and love a lot of what he does; not sure he is ready for prime-time.

Hey, HackWM author here, this might be a better link https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM :) Unfortunately it has been largely unmaintained by myself since the initial release, I occasionally pick it up for a day or two but I'm not using it actively anymore. Just happy that some people find a use for it!

Yeah I clearly saw it a long time ago.

As I said, stumbled upon your blog because of Chicken Lisp musings (dare I say chicken scratch)? Thanks for that, all very interesting.

X was never designed to work like that. I personally run Visual Studio Code (with a patched X lib to allow Electron to start without graphics acceleration) with the "local window manager" (i.e., Windows itself). Works great.

Okay I'll bite. Why are you running Linux vs∆ code in widnLaASaAAqaa@@@@£

(Sorry, I put my phone in my pocket and this apparently happened. Wish I could delete it, didn't even know it sent, not a fan of my tone, apologies.)

Because I want full integration with a Git CLI that uses the exact same plugins as I use in Linux. Git on Windows is a pain for me.

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