After 15+ years of using tiling window managers (mostly #i3) I find myself tempted by some of the aspects a proper desktop environment like #GNOME Shell provides. (The toolbar with quick access to power and connectivity settings and the native support for function keys including nice looking screen overlays.)
However there is absolutely no way I’m going to give up automatic tiling.
Has anyone successfully made the switch from i3 to one of the Gnome Shell extensions? (gTile, forge, PaperVM, …)
@daniel There's a bunch of tiling extensions for Shell. Forge, Tiling Assistent, PaperWM, gTile, ... but also Tiling Shell. Have a look at it, it's one of the newest extensions.
Edited 91d ago
@daniel
Happy using KDE with a tiling manager (herbstluftwm) underneath for years now with zero regrets. Loosing approximately nothing from a normal KDE system (apart from Wayland... which is slowly becoming a problem)
@daniel I use PaperWM (I previously used xmonad with Mate). it's really nice.
The major issue is that it's a bit finicky wrt. to the Gnome version you use. There's the occasional hiccup or application that does not work well, but I really like it.
@daniel I've been using the pop-shell extension quite happily. Came from i3/sway.
@daniel In case that does no come to late: after having tried several GNOME extensions for tiling, I ended up on KDE with kwin-bismuth. I am coming from dwm.