alt text: Scene of The Punisher where he is desperate having a nightmare, captioned “When a tiling window manager user has to use a MacOS/Windows desktop”
alt text: Scene of The Punisher where he is desperate having a nightmare, captioned “When a tiling window manager user has to use a MacOS/Windows desktop”
“Window Managers” don’t exist on windows and mac. There’s third party programs that re-position your windows. But you can’t replace the window manager for these OSs. AFAIK they don’t have a concept of a window manager. Its all one seemless desktop experience.
Love to be proven wrong or at least shown an adequate alternate. Because pic is me in a few weeks. Goodbye slack, google, and zoom. Hello M$ TEAMS.
I’m not clear on what the distinction is that you’re referring to. How are the Linux window managers different than the win/mac ones?
Window managers in Linux take direct command from the display server (Xorg, Wayland, etc.) to decide where to position windows and what they should look like. Whereas “window managers” on MacOS/Windows are tricking the original window manager provided by the OS into positioning windows a certain way. I’m simplifying here, but hope that clears things up.
Thanks for the info, but what is the functional difference to the end user?
They’re limited by what the original window manager allows them to do. Sway has its whole own window manager, so it can do whatever it wants.
You mean like Windows registry which determines how the windows need to be managed, just like almost every other program running on Windows?
Your explanation still doesn’t differentiate.
Or do you claim Linux calls home to some rando server to get the information on how a window should be displayed? Because that doesn’t seem like a great feature at all.