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Why do web browsers feel out of place? When I'm using a web browser, it's almost always either taking up a whole screen or exactly half of one--it may as well be tiled already! So when I switched to XMonad, using browsers still felt very natural.

Perhaps it's just a cosmetic issue? For example, if you're using Chrome, you have to configure it to use system borders--otherwise it just looks wrong. I also set my Firefox up to be much more minimalistic, which looks much better with a tiling WM.

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Completely agree– I absolutely love having my browser tiled. Every time I look up and realize I'm still in OS X and can't split my browser window something twitches and I contemplate booting up a VM so it doesn't happen again while I'm in the zone. I'd also be interested in seeing what modifications you've made though– I don't think I configured very much and even though I don't use Chrom(ium) as my primary browser I never really took issue with the way it looked. In Firefox I just hide everything and use Pentadactyl.

Take a look at ShiftIt, it's a Mac application that gives you keyboard shortcuts to move windows around. I absolutely love it, so I get to keep my OS X while having some of the features I miss from tiling window managers.

I use Zephyros now (after going full neckbeard with my Slate config) but until I spend more time with the configuration it's still a couple extra keystrokes where in Xmonad I'd have already handled it. But at least we have some choices :)

Divvy's another good one for this, and you can define your own regions. Maybe this is possible with ShiftIt too?

http://mizage.com/divvy/

GTK look hideous in every tiling am I've tried. Xterm, xvclock, etc look gorgeous in that setting.

You have to manually set the gtk theme you want because you don't have a desktop environment to set it for you.

Could you share any details about your setup?

I didn't really do much customization. For FireFox, I just used a different theme and got rid of all the UI bits I didn't use. For Chrome, I only set it to use system borders. I didn't even configure XMonad very much--the defaults are very well thought out.

In practice, it looks like this:

Firefox: http://jelv.is/xmonad-ff.png Chrome: http://jelv.is/xmonad-chrome.png Tiled: http://jelv.is/xmonad-tiled.png

The only real problem I've had is that form widgets are rather ugly. I think this should be easy enough to change, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

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