Linux @lemmy.ml shadowintheday @beehaw.org 1y ago

Is it possible to have new windows open either right or left in gnome?

Using newest GNOME

I want windows of newly opened programs to either go to to to the half left, or half right of the screen when opened, instead of opening in a random place/middle of the screen not maximized

is it possible ?

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idk about gnome but this sounds like you should look into tiling window managers
- @itsjxssica @shadowintheday window managers have some obvious flaws from a usability standpoint. Most people are never going to dedicate the time to using something like that.
  
  Judging by the @s in your comment you are posting this from Mastodon, which severely bungles Lemmy threads. The OP is posting on a Linux community and has a problem that only tiling window managers can really solve, average users don't matter here.
Have you tried the tiling assistant or gtile extensions? Not quite the same as a regular tiling window manager, but tiling assistant works pretty we'll for just snapping and moving windows.
- gtile might be what I was looking for, ty
Sounds like you want a tiling window manager, I like i3-gaps.
- I've tried tiling WM but they are not for me
For Gnome i use PaperVM as tiling manager. Easy to use and easy to install, just look at the github readme.
Well I don’t think the philosophy of Gnome is to really have a lot of different windows in the same workspace.

The idea would be to move them to a different workspace so that you can really focus on what you’re doing.

That being said, if you have a big screen, I’d understand why you want to do that.
- Yeah I use workspaces too, it's just that each of them have 2 windows placed besides each other as if each were a "normal sized" display

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