Tiling under Xfce - possible at all?

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I was just wondering: Does anyone of you have any experience with adding Tiling Window Managers to Xfce and could tell me how it works? I was using awesome back in the days, but I didn't use it with a Desktop Environment, so I'm not sure how to restore this functionality with Xfce.

Is that possible at all, or would I have to drop Xfce (and its panel)?

[Beardedragon]

I was just wondering: Does anyone of you have any experience with adding Tiling Window Managers to Xfce and could tell me how it works? I was using awesome back in the days, but I didn't use it with a Desktop Environment, so I'm not sure how to restore this functionality with Xfce.

Is that possible at all, or would I have to drop Xfce (and its panel)?

Right click the Desktop, in the menu click "Desktop Settings," then under Style>Tiled. If you need to hide your Panel, right click Panel and go to Customize Panels and change settings to autohide.

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Doesn't that only affect the wallpaper?

[Beardedragon]

Doesn't that only affect the wallpaper?

Sorry if I misunderstood. That is the only tiling I know about. I did find this in google: http://ask.metafilter.com/105026/Best-t ... -for-Linux

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For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager

[jeffreyC]

If you want tiling, why not use awesome, did you not like something about it ?
You can add it to Debian and choose which you run at login.
As far as I know Xfce does not tile, and I spend a lot of time on a forum with Xfce gurus and tiling wm fans.

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Because I want my new machine to be a workstation, primarily; with quite a plenty of shortcuts, desktop icons and all that matters. Of course I could script them into awesome, but I'm positive I won't find much time for my actual work then.

I presume Xfce can use another WM than Xfwm4, so xfdesktop+awesome or dwm or wmii or whatever... would probably make it. But how?
- That said, I could also use compiz' "grid" plug-in which knows tiling, but it is not really flexible. Also, AFAICS, it doesn't store grid changes permanently.

[jeffreyC]

It is possible to use Openbox with Xfce and possible to tile in Openbox.
But no desktop icons.

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Desktop icons are really a minor problem. I could also install dock tools or something. (Would look weird with awesome though.)
Could you elaborate that? I had read through the Openbox docs but not found anything related to tiling.

[jeffreyC]

I have not done this myself, the best place I can recommend to find ideas for it would be here;

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/forum/9/wmde-talk/

a lot of knowledge and helpful people.

And if you use pcmanfm you could have it put icons on the desktop.

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I am not that big fan of registering on every board I stumbled upon, so I thought ...
Any docs, maybe?

[jeffreyC]

You can read the posts without registering, even search the forum.

[/dev/urandom]

Ah, great.
Random searches on that board haven't given me any better clue though.

[jeffreyC]

I did a quick search and found these

http://ftp.unixdev.net/pub/debian-udev/ ... in/t/tile/

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... h-pytyler/

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... rg/page/9/
see post #206

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Ok, I'm definitely too dumb to search then.
Thank you, will look through them when I find the time.

Any more hints are appreciated, too.

[jeffreyC]

Sometimes I get bad results from Google too.
The more I try to be specific the weirder the results.

[randomizer]

This might be helpful if you want to use Xmonad with Xfce:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmon ... ad_in_XFCE

I've made Xmonad work with GNOME perfectly, so it should work fine with Xfce as well.

[jeffreyC]

Xmonad is meant to work with Gnome

[randomizer]

It should work with anything. It's just a window manager after all. Of course there is a difference between "working" and "properly integrated", but it just requires more work to get the latter.

[/dev/urandom]

Some WMs rely on a particular DE which makes it harder to get them working at all.

The Xmonad tutorial looks well, although it is based on an older Xfce version, but I might try to figure it out.