idk about gnome but this sounds like you should look into tiling window managers
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@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.
I'm not sure how easy it is to do with GNOME now, but you can often have a WM just replace part of your DE. For a long time I ran i3 as part of an Xfce setup when I had to connect to school wifi.
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.
I’ve never heard about lemme till today. I’m a twitter refugee so I’m kinda inexperienced with the fediverse, that’s said tho.. If someone is using gnome in the year of our lord 2023 they’re probably not the crowd for display managers. I do find the idea quite nice but I’m really wondering why desktop environments suck at windows tiling. It seems like quite an important feature.
Lemmy is a reddit-like that redditors are migrating to because of reddit's recent decision to kill 3rd party like twitter did (and their piss poor management, also like twitter). as for why DEs don't tile windows, the world may never know.
Sounds like you want a tiling window manager, I like i3-gaps.
I've tried tiling WM but they are not for me
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
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