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by vmladenov 739 days ago
Can you share any resources on learning to be productive with tiling WMs? I have tried a few times and always bounce off of them. I also find window overlapping to often be more intuitive than forcing them to squeeze into a tile.

I internalized the swipe gestures (3 fingers left/right) early on with OS X 10.6 snow leopard and then with the Mission Control update (3 fingers up) I am basically always faster with a trackpad than any keyboard “workspace” navigation.
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__MatrixMan__ 739 days ago
For tiling WM's I think it's rather critical that the hotkey for "move window left" resemble the hotkey for "move focus left". I haven't tried AeroSpace yet, but so far I haven't been able to pull this off with any of the tiling apps on MacOS (if I've overlooked one please let me know).

So my tip for being productive in a tiling window manager is to get a linux machine and use sway.

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