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title: "Scrollable Window Managers"
description: "hey"
author: "maggie"
written_at: 2024-08-23T12:00:00Z
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# Hi!
Today I want to tell you about something new, something not very popular yet, I'd say.

## What are scrollable window managers?
They are essentially tiling window managers, but infinitely scrolling to the right. Unlike a regular tiling WM, your windows do not resize when a new one is opened.

## How could one use this?
From my testing, I've found that it's quite handy to have one "primary" program in the center, then a file manager + terminal on the right side, then something like a music player on the left side. I really do recommend you try it.

## Which one do I get?
The interesting part is that most scrolling window managers are based on top of other, already existing desktop environments/window managers, such as:
- [PaperWM](https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM) - Arguably the most polished one, has been developed for the longest time, but is built on top of GNOME. Uses the mouse as well.
- [Karousel](https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel) - KDE version of PaperWM, needs quite a bit of tinkering to get animations working. Mouse does not work with it, but it's still pretty good.
- [PaperSway](https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/papersway/) - Sway implementation. Have not tried yet.
- [Hyprscroller](https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller) - Hyprland (bleh) implementation.
There is also an outlier among the rest, a scrollable WM that is not based off of any other preexisting environment.
- [Niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri) - Is in development, blazing fast, is Wayland only, but does not support XWayland.

## How does one of these look like
Here is a picture of Niri from their GitHub

![a picture of Niri](/media/niri2.jpg)

## Why have you been away for so long?
It's been.... very long since the last post, right? There's been a ton of real life things going bad in the last two months. But now, everything is going great again! I am now a cat owner, and it's nothing like how I expected it to be, but it's beautiful. From now on, I will most likely continue to write posts in a more timely fashion. Thank you for understanding! This is also the first post I have written entirely in neovim, along with my website + blog design update which will come pretty soon... sooo bye bye nya!