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Scrollable Window Managers hey maggie 2024-08-23T12:00:00Z

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 - 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 - 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 - Sway implementation. Have not tried yet.
  • 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 - 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

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!