Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager

In essence, this is similar how I setup and use Spaces on macOS. Have a number of spaces that are horizontally laid out with a three finger left&#x2F;right swipe between them.<p>For each Space, you can make the apps full-screen or split screen to have variable width windows. Of course you don&#x27;t need to make them full screen but it does keep it simple similar to Cardboard.<p>The added functionality with this approach is that you can use the Space as a casual grouping of windows in a related project.

This is reminiscent of Gnome&#x27;s PaperWM [0]. Not a Gnome user and just had the chance to try it for less than an hour, but the experience in my head sounded better than it was in reality - though was more of &#x27;unexpected behavior&#x27; things than faults in the concept.<p>I think this approach tries to solve the &#x27;cramming too much windows in a single virtual desktop&#x27; that sometimes can be felt with tiling WMs. For example, when I&#x27;m drawing something in Krita I&#x27;d want to see some references of what I&#x27;m drawing - I&#x27;d just scroll a bit to unveil an adjacent Falkon window to browse some images on the internet, do some strokes and scroll back to Krita&#x27;s window - without having to resize it in half.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paperwm&#x2F;PaperWM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paperwm&#x2F;PaperWM</a>

So I have very mixed feelings. On the one hand, <i>super</i> cool; this is the first time in a long time I&#x27;ve actually considered switching away from i3, because this seems like a natural fit for how I actually want to work. On the other hand, Wayland decided that each and every compositor is responsible for <i>everything</i>, so AFAICT cardboard can only handle QWERTY right now, and that&#x27;s a complete non-starter for me.

A tiling window manager is one thing I still miss on MacOS from Linux. Back then I used ion3, I still think about it fondly.<p>I&#x27;ve been eyeing yabai [0] for a while. It requires system integrity protection to be disabled. I initially misread it as being fully disabled, but it turns out once whatever extensions are injected, protection can be reenabled. Excited to try it once it&#x27;s got a Monterey version.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koekeishiya&#x2F;yabai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koekeishiya&#x2F;yabai</a>

Was very excited to see this idea, some time ago I was very excited by the thought of pretty much this same concept without the smooth scrolling, because I knew it could be done with some scripting in some other tiling wm that did &quot;desktops&quot; or &quot;tags&quot; on the fly.<p>And then I saw Wayland. Bleh.<p>So I&#x27;ll ask -- anyone have any ideas, thoughts, pointers on doing something similar in X?

Interesting take, but I can&#x27;t see much use for it perhaps. I&#x27;d probably prefer vertical scrolling, and to be frank I did something like this a long time ago by setting my Xorg screen settings to be larger than my monitor (and then scrolling around with the mouse). Tie that with a tiling window manager like awesomeWM so that you can configure while you work and it should work out to be just about the same experience.<p>Highly appreciative of people trying new things though, I will never shut down people&#x27;s desire to experiment. More power to them I say, one day someone might stumble into something that really <i>really</i> works wonders.<p>edit: sorry, I thought the project WAS PaperWM. but no it&#x27;s cardboard that has been inspired by PaperWM.

I feel like this would have been killer with integration to something like leap motion. It has that <i>Minority Report</i> UI feel.

Truly awesome. This might be a game-changer for laptops. If I were actively using a laptop, I would definitely be using this.

Off topic: love the blog design.<p>It&#x27;s information dense, non-distracting, and links look like links.

This is cool. Would be good to see vertical scrolling as well

Looks like a nice idea for mobile devices as well.

Is there a way to also arrange windows vertically or is every window auto maxed out in vertical space?

How ready is this to replace i3?

Looks interesting, I wonder how does it handle floating windows.

This is the ideal multitasking model for the iPad

Is it just me or is their demo video flickering?

&quot;exciting&quot;<p>More like hell on earth.<p><i>Since you&#x27;re all downvoting me for simply having an unenthusiastic opinion, here is that opinion in detail:<p>we spend a lot of time designing applications so they don&#x27;t horizontally scroll, and now you want your window manager to do it? What&#x27;s wrong with full-screen applications in multiple virtual desktops like macOS?</i>