• Shertson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A good start would be to implement quarter tiling by dragging window to screen corner, like half tiling is done by dragging to screen edge.

    I have a 3840x2160 monitor specifically so that I can have four windows open at the best size for their content (email, document, web browse, and terminal) and can avoid the use of workspaces and see everything at once. Having to manually resize and place windows is a pain.

    • SpicyTofuSoup@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Have you tried the Pop Shell gnome extension? It allows you to toggle i3wm like window tiling. It’s also similar to Rectangle on macOS

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        1 year ago

        I have tried it. It resizes windows weirdly. I haven’t dug through the settings for it, so it could be fixable. No matter how I resize my terminal, it always snaps to smaller than a quarter of the screen. Thunderbird seems to always resize bigger than a quarter of the screen. It’s still better than nothing, but I’d love for it to be built in.

    • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Quarter tiling is huge on a 4K screen. I use a 4K screen when I’m doing YouTube programming videos sometimes and want to have OBS, a camera preview, an HDMI capture preview, and sometimes an app I want to put on screen open at the same time and quarter tiling is great for this. I currently have to use an extension to get this functionality on GNOME, but it would be awesome to have it built in.

      • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Seems like quarter tiling is a nice start, with additional splitting when dragging a window over another as shown in the OP.