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Is scrollable tiling better than regular tiling in a laptop screen?

I personally find it better because, unlike regular tiling, you're not constrained to the screen size. I.e. if a 50% window width is too small, I can tile together several 67% or even 100% wide windows, and just scroll between them.

That makes sense, thanks!

How is that better than alt+tab? Do you really benefit from being able to see both at the same time if you have to constantly adjust the scrolling manually? My intuition is that tiling is that scrolling negates any benefit tiling had, since it reintroduces the mouse as a core aspect of window navigation.

Alt+Tab is in most-recently-used order, whereas with scrolling it's a spatial kind of system.

> since it reintroduces the mouse as a core aspect of window navigation

Not really, why? You switch between windows with binds, just like in a regular tiling WM. Mod+Left/Right (H/L) goes to the window to the left/right, etc.

If you have more than say like 5 windows, trying to navigate to the desired one can be hellish. Here every windows have it's own place and by remembering it, you can navigate to it very easily. Scrollable and traditional Tiling are not related at all (at least for me) and try to do different things.

I've been using paperwm for a couple of days and my laptop track-pad doesn't even support three finger scrolling so I'm currently using keyboard to navigate.

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