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So one lecture covers window managers for tiling. I used dwm for years and love it, but am stuck on Windows at work. Is there anything for Windows 10 that has a similar approach of having a stack with your unused applications and a big window for the app that is in focus? And then you can easily move window from stack to focus and vice versa?

I looked at the Wikipedia article [1], but none of the alternatives seem to do that.

What can you recommend?

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[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager




~Year ago, I had plenty of success with bug.n - https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n. It's a DWM clone written in... AutoHotkey, of all things.


Ok,this blew my mind in thousands pieces. I'm going to try it right away.


You could have a full-screen Xming session connected to dwm running in WSL, if you liked that better. Of course, you would still have to use the standard Windows DE/WM when using Win32 applications, but if most of your work is text editing, web browsing, etc, you might be well served by the full-screen Xming.

You could start with this guide, which solves a slightly different but related problem: https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2017/02/08/graphic...


It's no where near complete like dwm for that, but it is highly customizable, I use AquaSnap when I have to use windows for work. It is paid but I haven't had any issues with upgrades or redownloading the software when I haven't had to use a windows machine in a while.

https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap


If your stuck on windows, give MobaXterm a try. It's the commandline Windows should have had.

Sorry, but I don't think there is anything you can do about the GUI..

I like to use x2go on another machine or VM, it gives you access to individual windows/tiles for Linux programs, similar to Citrix published apps.


Haven't tried it but I think HashTWM[1] claims to have a similar main/stack model for windows.

[1] https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM




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