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101points
27comments
#453of 2,242 in 2017
Top 21%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
4 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Pricing: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
High DPI support and XAML layouts
From 1 comment
Author here. Wanted to make something to replace seemingly dead GridMove (http://jgpaiva.dcmembers.com/gridmove.html). Current version basically reimplements GridMove's…
lostmsu on HN
Looks neat and useful for power users
From 2 comments
Neat looking tool, glad you posted it here i'll give it a try
LyalinDotCom on HNHallo Author! Can I just say, it's worth easily ten bucks a copy, to me, to have the baseline settings configurable by group policy. Super product useful for power users and…
amygdyl on HN
Objections
Predefined layouts unlike i3-style dynamic tiling
From 2 comments
Would definitely buy if it behaved like i3 on linux. i3 doesn't use predefined layouts like most WM. I find it much more logical than awesome, xmonad, etc.
mmgutz on HNI'm also very interested in i3-style tiling instead of pre-configured layouts. I like being able to manage the splits more dynamically. I also really like i3's concept of…
segphault on HN
Drag-to-edge behavior did not create a new zone as expected
From 1 comment
Yep - I admit that the first thing I did was to middle-drag the window to the right edge expecting it to create a new 1/3 box on the right side of screen.
tomaskafka on HN
Requests
i3-style dynamic tiling and hotkeys
From 2 comments
Would definitely buy if it behaved like i3 on linux. i3 doesn't use predefined layouts like most WM. I find it much more logical than awesome, xmonad, etc.
mmgutz on HNI use i3 (gaps, because it's pretty) and would also be excited about a windows version. I'm not a super sophisticated user of it. I appreciate ability to arbitrarily split panes…
dave_sullivan on HN
Move window to another display hotkey
From 1 comment
It would be nice if you could have a shortcut to "move current active window to Display 1/2/3 etc."
Sunset on HN
Group policy configuration
From 1 comment
Hallo Author! Can I just say, it's worth easily ten bucks a copy, to me, to have the baseline settings configurable by group policy. Super product useful for power users and…
amygdyl on HN
Questions
Is it open source?
From 1 comment
Glad to see people are still making better window managers! Is this open source? I'd love to see how it works by reading the code. Which Windows APIs does it use? How is it…
DonHopkins on HN
Can it be extended with JavaScript?
From 1 comment
Glad to see people are still making better window managers! Is this open source? I'd love to see how it works by reading the code. Which Windows APIs does it use? How is it…
DonHopkins on HN
Alternatives named
GridMove
From 1 comment
Author here. Wanted to make something to replace seemingly dead GridMove (http://jgpaiva.dcmembers.com/gridmove.html). Current version basically reimplements GridMove's…
lostmsu on HN
WiLMA
From 1 comment
interesting. I tried to use WiLMA http://www.stefandidak.com/windows-layout-manager/ that has a super long list of features, but it was erroring frequently on Win10. If you…
jmlucjav on HN
AquaSnap
From 2 comments
looks cool, am giving it a spin. I have been using Aquasnap for now, and although it always suited my needs, it stopped working for unknown reasons, and am happy to look at this…
mdekkers on HNI'm also very interested in i3-style tiling instead of pre-configured layouts. I like being able to manage the splits more dynamically. I also really like i3's concept of…
segphault on HN
i3
From 1 comment
Would definitely buy if it behaved like i3 on linux. i3 doesn't use predefined layouts like most WM. I find it much more logical than awesome, xmonad, etc.
mmgutz on HN
OpenBox
From 1 comment
I've tried a bunch of tiling WMs and had this same frustration with predefined layouts. OpenBox has turned out to work best for me. It's not a tiling WM exactly but you can map…
jefurii on HN