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Maybe this is a bit of a ridiculous idea, but what about natively supporting tabs in a window manager? While it would probably be impractical to force all applications to support tabs, it would be nice to be able to rearrange elements/windows of work/productivity apps as such.

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BeOS and Haiku support this natively. So does Essence [1].

On Linux, I usually use i3 and arrange windows in tabbed or stacked layouts. Other tiling window managers may offer similar functionality.

On Windows, I like to use TidyTabs [2]. This is a paid product, but it works really well.

[1] https://nakst.gitlab.io/essence

[2] https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs

This is not that far from the way macOS does it, where apps can go full-screen as if they were single-app virtual desktops.

You can flick between the apps, but the useless situation where apps are half-off the screen, like the wretched Metro interface on Windows, does not occur.

kde has supported this for years, and pretty much every tiling wm allows similar configuration

A lot of tiling WMs, for example i3, already support that. It can be useful when you want to hide a window like a long running terminal session, but I usually go to a new virtual desktop instead

This is precisely what tabbed does: https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/

For Windows, Groupy is a utility to group and tab windows. Works well with the built in snapping of Windows. Buy it on Steam and you can use it on up to five computers IIRC.

fluxbox ;-)

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