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Privately using dwm [1] for many years now and never looked back.

But having to working under a MS Windows 10 setup now, I was wondering:

Is there anything equivalent for MS Windows?

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[1] http://dwm.suckless.org/

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http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dwm-win32/ This is literally a win32 port of dwm. It can probably accept slightly modified versions of the upstream patches.

Works okay on Windows 10, but has some weird behaviour around the search menu on Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB.

Kinda.

Windows 10 has the ability to tile windows by dragging one of them to the left or right screen edge, or corners (dragging one to the top edge maximize it).

But they can only resize nearby windows when there are a vertical split between two windows.

If i try using a full height window on one side, and two half height on the other, Windows fails to resize the neighbors to match any changes i make.

You might want to look into Aqua Snap, it solves a lot of those resizing problems. I'm not affiliated, just a happy customer.

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

This might take away some of the pain of resizing windows:

> Taekwindow is a simple, lightweight and free Windows program that allows you to move and resize windows by dragging them with the Alt key, similar to many X11 window managers.

https://github.com/ttencate/taekwindow

  WinSplit Revolution (Free, closed source, abandoned)

Can be configured to have shortcuts to place your windows in any position you want. Out-the-box it has numpad shortcuts for a 2x2 or 3x3 grid and you can add as many as you want to it and the keys will cycle through them.

You have to download it from cnet because it's not maintained any more and the original website redirects to a paid-for alternative, but it still works for me with Windows 7.

http://download.cnet.com/WinSplit-Revolution/3000-2072_4-109...

  Window Grid (Free, closed source, last build 2016-05-17)

Layout windows on a dynamic grid by dragging with the right mouse button.

http://windowgrid.net/

  PWT - Python Windows Tiler (Open source)

can remove the unnecessary parts of the windows, such as scrollbars, menu bar, etc..

http://iradar.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/python-windows-tiler-ti...

https://github.com/Tzbob/python-windows-tiler

  More suggestions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14307243

Also Win+Arrows moves windows to sides/corners. It can do up to a 2x2 grid. Not full featured but better than nothing.

I really like AquaSnap for Windows and Magnet for MacOS: http://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap https://www.techrepublic.com/article/magnet-why-the-macos-wi...

They're half-way between the minimal snapping built into each OS and a full-blown tiling WM. The keyboard shortcuts for left and right 2:3rds and shortcuts for moving a window to a specific quadrant in Magnet are my most-used, since often I want a terminal and a browser, or two IDE windows, or IDE + browser + docs (dash) + terminal on one screen.

I used bug.n for a while

https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n

It worked pretty well but was occasionally buggy, but that's the best that can be expected without replacing the Explorer Shell. I'd recommend trying it out.

This is the one that best fits my needs as well. I've been using it for a few years. About every year I look around to see if there's anything better, but I keep coming back to it. It's not perfect, but it does the job, most of the time.

Personally, I've found that the type of program I run on Windows does not lend itself well to tiling -- they all need to be pretty big to work well, and if I tile two programs, then on average each will be 50%, which is too small for the Windows programs.

So instead I came up with a number of window positions and sizes that I liked and I use AutoHotKey to invoke each of them with a hotkey. So for example, I have a setting for a full-height, 80% width, window at the left edge, and another one for the same size at the right edge. Now I can put my browser on the right edge, and my ConEmu on the left edge, and while reading HackerNews in the browser I can see when the build I've started in ConEmu is done :-)

Any chance you can share ahk?

You might try this: https://losttech.software/stack.html

never found one :( the sad thing is, the few times I use windows I want one specific tiling mode - a single vertical split with keystrokes to move the split line left or right, and to swap the left/right panes. (e.g. read a howto in a browser, follow along with it in the app in the other pane). I was hoping for something that would just let me do that, but no dice.

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