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Kudos for this, what's your pitch for i3 users?

It adds tiling to floating window managers like openbox, xfwm, and kwin, giving tiling to more mainstream desktop environments like GNOME, XFCE, and KDE. It's not really made for i3 users I think.

I guess the advantage over i3 would be that those desktop environments have better integration with certain apps and a coherent look and feel. For example, on Ubuntu, which uses a modified GNOME, you can add tiling while still enjoying stuff like the volume control widget, gnome-control-center, consistent file open dialogs, and so on.

I'm curious about this too. You'll have to pry i3 away from my cold dead hands.

Stick with i3!

For anyone who wants i3 but doesn't want to configure it, the only other option I know of was regolith:

https://regolith-desktop.com/ or https://regolith-linux.org/

This looks like a nice fit for my xfwm machine and I'm excited to try it.

Stuff like Regolith is great, but do yourself a favor and invest some time in making your desktop your own - it makes a world of difference in terms of efficiency, and you get to learn how all these applications work, what they're capable of, etc.

Seriously - i3 config isn't that complicated and the documentation/community is great.

Having been part of the i3 community for many years, yes it is, and thanks!

I agree. I've only used regolith once, and it was a work computer that I didn't feel like copying my config to and didn't want to spend time configuring from scratch. It was nice in that case.

There is papersway for sway/i3 folks:

https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/papersway/

Thank you for posting this link, because I am a happy sway user and didn’t realize this existed. I plan to try it out. Have you used it?

I (the author) have been using it for several months now and haven't really experienced any dissatisfaction.

No, I'm a GNOME/KDE user. It is written by a Debian colleague of mine.

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