

Especially those of us that have a history with OSX (mac) or Windows. Stacked window managers, on the other hand, are what we conventionally think of. The following screenshot, from Wikipedia, demonstrates this for i3. They (typically, by default) do not allow windows to stack or overlap. Tiled are commonly composed of several “workspaces”, which can be switched through and host one or many windows, tiled side-by-side. Window managers come in two, primary, varieties. Before diving too deep into my day-to-day workflow, let’s set some primer around window managers. Your computer, whether running Ubuntu or Arch, can flip a switch to run a very capable, heavy-weight manager such as KDE or a manager with a binary size of ~1mb, such as dwm. The fact that we’re afforded these choices around window managers is what draws many of us in initially. In case of crashes, please also remember to save and attach the log file produced by the application.That said, I do love and prefer Linux. Opening an issue on (feature requests also welcome).Please, take the time to report any problems you experience by: To start a command sequence, press and release these keys simultaneously, then follow up by pressing one of the keybindings you have configured in the settings.įancyWM only manages restored (not minimized, not maximized) top-level application windows, so it doesn't interfere with popups, and still allows you to use all of your available display area for when you need to focus on a window User's Guide ☑ Remap activation hotkey to +, + or + įancyWM uses + as the start of a command sequence (Activation hotkey). ☑ Disable animations for longer battery life ☑ Floating window mode ( +, then or rule-based) ☑ Move focused window to virtual desktop ( +, then + ) ☑ Stack panels (tabbed layouts) ( +, then )

☑ Swap windows with mouse (hold while dragging) ☑ Swap windows with keyboard ( +, then + ) ☑ Move window focus with keyboard ( +, then ) ☑ Create dynamic tiling layouts with mouse or keyboard FancyWM is a dynamic tiling window manager for Windows 10/11
