I love WMs but sometimes I wish there was also a fully featured WM (like a DE) for lazy people.
Because sometimes I can’t be bothered customizing the configs and I would just rather have a slightly more bloated setup but with faster customization and some features out of the box without to much researching.
But in my perspective, in terms of work flow WMs are just the way to compute efficiently.
Do you have any suggestions of projects that might be out there that do fill this niche?
I think you can get tiling on both KDE Plasma and GNOME. I know it exists for Plasma but not sure about GNOME.
Plasma lets you change WM: https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Using_Other_Window_Managers_with_Plasma
I tried with bspwm and it works well, you can also disable Plasma’s keyboard shortcuts if you want to use sxhkd.
For me this is Gnome with the pop shell extension. It’s so much better than plain i3 in usability and just as good with tiling. Using i3 for years made me appreciate the value of a proper modern desktop environment.
I would recommend arcolinux hyprland
Are you asking for a gnome extension like g Forge https://github.com/forge-ext/forge or https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM ?
More like traditional dynamic tilling WM
There’s wayblue https://github.com/wayblueorg/wayblue which sounds like what you want
In KDE Plasma, Super + T brings up a built in tiling feature. It’s super basic, but allows you to set static window snap zones on any display.
Each zone can be split horizontally or vertically, and you can adjust the zone-gaps to the exact pixel you want.
It’s not dynamic as far as I know, but for me it’s all I need.
Once you go back into regular desktop mode, you can use the zone snaps by holding shift while you drag a window. Releasing the window while holding shift will snap the window into the current snap zone it’s closest to.
Manjaro Sway.
Very interesting, but I do wish there was a equivalent but based on a dynamic tilling WM
