What kind of setup should be used for this? I know I can do this with split screens on the Mac. But is there a minimal Linux setup which provides this kind of experience?
* My monitors are two Dell U2412M 24 inch 16:10 1920x1200 monitors.
* My distribution is Gentoo (https://gentoo.org/)
* My window manager is dwm (https://dwm.suckess.org)
* My terminal is st (https://st.suckless.org/)
* My terminal multiplexer is tmux when I use one,
(which is not very often at all).
* My menu is dmenu (https://dmenu.suckless.org/)
* My shell is bash
* My editor is vim (https://github.com/milesrout/.vim)
* My browser is Firefox, by far the most bloated programme I use.
The reason I comment is to share what took me too long to realize. If you want to resize the two full screen apps, the experience is much smoother if your browser is in focus first. Click browser, then drag to resize.
Something to do with the terminal trying to keep to character-width bounds, I think.
* Linux (linuxmint)
* awesomewm
* mate-terminal, with the menu turned off
* tmux
* $BROWSER
The browser has tabs, and tmux has windows, which are effectively tabs. I don't open new terminal tabs in the terminal, I open new windows in tmux.
Usually I just have the terminal and browser open. If I have something else, like Okular for pdf viewing, you can click on its icon in the top bar and make it disappear from the mod4-[jk] sequence.
I've used other twms in a similar way: xmonad, i3, qtile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#List_of_...
I've also used more usual graphical shells in a sort of tiled way, like mate and cinnamon, but it's slightly more manual effort, and there's all that gui-cruft taking up space and attention.
I would say that the _only_ thing I'm missing in Gnome is the ability to fit a window to the quarter screen, although I believe there are some plugins that can do this.