XFCE Tiling/Cascading Windows

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grimlok
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Joined: 04/16/2013

Hello all,

I was wondering, for those of you who have some XFCE experience, if there was a way to make XFCE's window manager open each new window side by side instead of directly on top of each other. I would even go for a cascading effect if that's all I could do.

Note: The problem may be how I have set up my desktop. I have a '.desktop' file called "Program Manager" that I open which opens up to another folder with other '.desktop' files which point to other folders with other '.desktop' files.

Each one opens in a new window but they just stack on top of each other in the center of the screen.

Thanks again,
grimlok

JadedCtrl
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Joined: 08/11/2014

It's called xmonad! :D

grimlok
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Joined: 04/16/2013

If I were to replace xfwm with xmonad, would I still have my windows themed the way I want them, or are the themes only for xfwm?

grimlok

JadedCtrl
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You would retain your window settings as long as the xfsettingsd daemon is still running.
EDIT: This might be useful-- https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_XFCE

grimlok
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I am fine with the xfwm really, I just want to make it do what I want it to do, lol.

jbar
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Joined: 01/22/2011

No, xfwm has not a true tiling mode.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfwm#Window_tiling