I'm giving niri a go. The idea is that a scrollable tiling window manager ("Wayland compositor") is a better fit than just a tiling window manager. For tiling window managers, I just create new stuff and have it maximized. I really can't do the quick splitting and rearranging that it seems to afford. The result is that I start moving stuff to other workspaces, where they're invisible and gone. I'm hoping that new windows popping up next to existing windows makes it feel like a stack.
Having gone through the config file and having made a few small changes it already feels pretty nice. Right now one of the problems I have is that by sheer bad luck I decided to rotate my external monitor by 90° and that doesn't work quite as well, maybe? I'm not sure. One of the first changes I did was change the default widths from ⅓ / ½ / ⅔ to 0.95 / ⅔ / ½ with 0.95 being the default.
#Window Managers #Niri
I didn't find a solution for Gimp. And I already had no solution for VASSAL under Sway. So for these applications, I still have Gnome installed.
Currently my `~/.config/fish/conf.d/window-manager.fish` says:
# If running from tty1 start sway set TTY (tty) [ "$TTY" = "/dev/tty1" ] && exec sway [ "$TTY" = "/dev/tty2" ] && exec startx [ "$TTY" = "/dev/tty3" ] && exec niri
Oh well. 😅