win3wm
Dev tools
window manager
SHOW HN2021
327points
95comments
#104of 2,533 in 2021
Top 5%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
9 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 37 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Design: 4 for, 5 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good to see active Windows development; tiling managers welcome
From 3 comments
So happy to see so much more active development in windows stuff these days, for a while it looked like all the cool stuff was happening in the apple ecosystem, I’m happy to see…
vxNsr on HNGreat work! I love FancyZones but this is a bit more configurable (a friend on Twitter calls FZ “lighter touch,” which I think is a perfect descriptor, whereas this is more…
filmgirlcw on HNThis is awesome. It’s always nice to see new Win32 productivity software. Thank you!
emily-c on HN
Configurable, more flexible than FancyZones
From 1 comment
Great work! I love FancyZones but this is a bit more configurable (a friend on Twitter calls FZ “lighter touch,” which I think is a perfect descriptor, whereas this is more…
filmgirlcw on HN
Objections
Taskbar must be at the bottom of the screen
From 1 comment
> The task bar must be at the bottom of the screen and not on the sides, this is something that will hopefully be fixed soon That's a shame, I look forward to this restriction…
reificator on HN
Calculator and some UWP windows float instead of tiling
From 2 comments
This is really cool. It doesn't seem to capture every app though - the first one I tried was Calculator, which just floated on top.
ghostpepper on HNYes my bad, this is a debugging remnant because all UWP windows share the same name meaning that it gets very confusing when the settings and other applications get captured by…
mcyoloswagham on HN
Windows can be resized without affecting others, unlike true i3 tiling
From 1 comment
One important distinction is that you can still resize the window without affecting other windows, so not really true tiling WM in linux sense, where you can never escape the…
majkinetor on HN
Requests
Save and restore window layout after monitor reconnect
From 2 comments
So happy to see so much more active development in windows stuff these days, for a while it looked like all the cool stuff was happening in the apple ecosystem, I’m happy to see…
vxNsr on HNOh wow, the hwnd approach is an awesome idea! I suffer from a different issue - my monitor has a displayport and 2 hdmi inputs, and when you activate one of the hdmi inputs, the…
nickflood on HN
Remember workspaces across reboots
From 1 comment
Does it have workspaces (virtual monitors)? Can it save them and restore them after I reboot?
qwerty456127 on HN
Per-monitor workspaces
From 2 comments
Nice work! One thing I always miss from MacOS is per-monitor workspaces. Does your WM support this? Gonna give it a shot. Right now I'm using the Microsoft's FancyZones PowerToy…
joombaga on HNOkay, I think that answers my question. I meant the ability to change workspaces on each monitor separately. In MacOS I can have a 2 monitors each with 2 workspaces, and switch…
joombaga on HN
Remove gaps between windows
From 2 comments
Fantastic work, THANK you! A suggestion: get rid of any spaces between the windows, but keep the snapping. Sort of how Aero Snap works today, snap to the entire left half, or the…
greggturkington on HNOn the subject of tiling managers (I use one since so long I don't even remember when I started using those), time for a rant... I never ever understood why those who do allow…
TacticalCoder on HN
Questions
How does it compare to FancyZones?
From 1 comment
How different from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/fancyzones is i3 or this i3 spinoff?
Already__Taken on HN
Can it be toggled on and off without logging out?
From 1 comment
Can you turn it on/off without logging out? I use i3 at work, and I'd guess I would want it 20% of the time for my personal computer.
rtlfe on HN
Does it have a fuzzy program launcher?
From 1 comment
I'll have to try this one out, I've been using PyleWM[0] for a few months, and it works well, but doesn't have as much workspace support as this project, it seems. One recent…
Miner49er on HN
Alternatives named
FancyZones
From 2 comments
How different from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/fancyzones is i3 or this i3 spinoff?
Already__Taken on HNFancyZones for Windows allows you to adjust or disable the gaps. Some people prefer the aesthetic of the gaps, but it should at least be an option for tiling window managers.
nvrspyx on HN
workspacer
From 1 comment
On Linux I’m a now full time sway-user, and a former i3 user. While on Windows I never found a good i3-replacement, I found a fairly mature and stable tiling WM I’ve been…
josteink on HN
Nog
From 1 comment
How does this stack up against Nog [0]? I currently use it for my i3 needs and its very clean and works better than anything else I've tried. 0 -…
webgoat on HN
dwm-win32
From 1 comment
There is a (similar?) effort that takes inspiration from dwm: https://github.com/prabirshrestha/dwm-win32 Maybe you can take inspiration from one another... I'm really tempted to…
aoloe on HN