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Any plans to make this for linux? I have recently switched away from Windows permanently due to the whole recall thing, but your project looks great.

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Wow; I guess I've seen it all. Time to retire I suppose.

Is this tiling manager not worth its salt to bring over to Linux? Or is it because there are already other tiling managers, there’s no point in this targeting Linux also?

There are lots of very well established tiling window managers for linux, there likely would be no advantage in porting a windows one to linux, and it may even be somewhat of a fools errand given the specifics of what its doing; you may as well write one from scratch.

i3 is a very widely used tiling manager on linux

I think the feigned shock from GP is that Komorebi was inspired by Linux tiling managers, so porting to Linux maybe feels like a copy of a copy.

I guess it's a little like moving to Mexico and asking if Taco Bell has ever considered opening a location there, as you're interested in dishes that feature tortillas, rice, beans, and cheese. : )

Sorry to give you a hard time :) In the X11 ecosystem, the window manager is traditionally a 3rd party tool chosen by the platform maker or user, so the options for managing the appearance and positions of your application windows are as varied as opinions about how to do it properly. A number of popular ideas have made their way back to Mac or Windows as features to modify the OS's window management to behave more like some particular window manager. On top of that, once upon a time, tiled layouts were basically all you got since you didn't have enough RAM for a render buffer. So it's amusing that you had asked this question.

i3 is the main tiling WM in linux these days but very many more are configurable to support automatic or manual tiling. Your linux distro probably has a straightforward method to change your WM, but do be aware you may lose some behaviors you like; i3 is pretty svelte while most of the default WMs shipped by vendors today make use of quite a bit of eye candy, animations, etc.

i think you aren't passing @ the gate of speech thing [0]

but anyway, your comment has 12 words or 56 characters! with this amount we could type: "Linux has lots of WMs like: awesome, DWM, i3, xmonad etc"

[0] https://suncoasthospice.org/the-three-gates-of-speech/

The issue is that Windows API is completely incompatible with Linux unfortunately! This wouldn't even be runnable under Wine.

That being said, as my siblings have mentioned, Linux has many (better) tiling managers. For instance Sway and Hyprland for Wayland or Awesome and i3 for X11!

I'd personally recommend Hyprland as the learning curve is small and the extensibility feels the greatest!

> Linux has many (better) tiling managers

I wish. komorebi is pretty much the only thing keeping me on Windows at this point because there is nothing comparable feature-wise on Linux.

Woops, I think "(better)" came off as far too harsh! I love komorebi a lot too, but ultimately it's held back by what Windows allows IMO.

For Linux, why not use one of the many tiling window managers?

I am new to linux, so I don’t know my way around them currently!

You'd still have to learn this one... Takes 10 minutes to learn all about i3 config.

X-monad and i3 are two common tiling managers for Linux. They prioritize different ways of working. So one might click with you while the other feels awkward…I connected with x-monad’s interface and not i3 but you might find the opposite.

i'd recommend a cheet sheet for both (i no longer have a url to one i used years-past; there's probably many variants nowadays) - but i can say a background pic of common commands can be quite handy when using tiling wms (esp when not using as a daily driver)

Don't worry, in a couple weeks you will be using i3 as window manager, code in neovim, have a github repo of your dotfiles, and consider switching to Arch Linux

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