Having to manually move and resize windows to prevent them from covering the mission-critical parts of one another can get pretty tiresome, once you have more than a handful open. The idea of having freely floating windows means that they can (and will) overlap each other. The main problem with floating WMs is the fact that they are not really designed to facilitate side-by-side viewing of more than one window. The floating approach to window management has been the most widely used (even Windows and Mac use it), but it has some fundamental flaws, which most of you might have experienced at some point or the other. As the name implies, they represent windows as floating rectangles on the desktop - freely resizeable and movable. All the WMs mentioned earlier are the floating variety. In this article, I will cover two kinds of WMs - floating and (surprise!) tiling. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are a variety of WMs.
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