In tiled layout windows are managed in a master and stacking area. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed. After a short general introduction of tiling and after looking into some existing tiling window manager implementations, we will have a closer look into the dynamic window manager dwm that follows the suckless philosophy. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. In this BrownBag we will see how tiling window managers work and what advantages they have over traditional window managers. In addition to the benefits that dynamic tiling window managers provide (maximizing screen real estate utilization, organizing windows, helping navigating through windows, tagging), they are usually less bloated as compared to desktop environments and provide a high level of control w.r.t. For those of you who are not familiar with the. The Suckless community claims that dwms code is never intended to exceed 2000 SLOC (source lines of code). It is designed to be much smaller, faster and simpler than its alternatives. Dynamic tiling window manager use layout templates that are useful for automatically arranging windows for you. It is a minimalist tiling window manager designed specifically for X11. Tiling window managers are different from traditional stacking window managers in the way they manage windows: tiles cannot overlap and make use the entire, available screen real estate.
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