There is even a dwm-style extremely comprehensive tiling window manager called bug.n [1], which I downloaded it way back in windows 8 days. Made a lot of changes myself and plan to open source it as a fork. Its too good. And combined with the rest of my AHK scripts, my windows setup turns out to be even more customised than many Linux systems I use.
See my post of my windows setup fooling r/unixporn [2] for how it could look.
[1] https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/neqnmi/bspwm_not_...
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Tiling Window Manager for Windows
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bug.n – Tiling Window Management
bug.n is a
tiling window manager
add-on for the Explorer shell of Microsoft Windows. It is written in the
scripting language AutoHotkey.
What it can do
Provide layouts for resizing and moving windows, utilizing all available
screen estate and customizable to your specific needs and workflow
Provide views (i. e. virtual desktops) for showing only those windows, which
you need to do your work.
Dynamically resize and move your windows, applying a specified layout,
without you having to care about moving them all by mouse
Increase the available screen estate by hiding and therewith freeing up the
space occupied by the Microsoft Windows Taskbar and the title bar for every
single window and replacing all with a single slim status bar (-- but bug.n
is not a shell replacement)
Show window management information in the status bar: active window title,
active layout, overview of the views used
Show system information in the status bar: time and date, CPU and memory
usage, disk and network load, battery and volume level
Store your settings, i. e. which windows and layout were set on a specific
view
Support multiple monitors
What it enables you to do
You can resize and move windows specified by the active layout and
initialized by hotkey.
You can toggle the visibility of the Windows Taskbar.
You can toggle the visibility of the Windows title bar of the active window.
You can change the layout for the tiling window management suitable to your
needs.
Tile: Lay out all windows like tiles on a master area, which can be
further split up, and a stacking area, where remaining windows can be stacked
or shown side by side.
Monocle: All windows are maximized and only one is shown at any time.
Floating: Windows are not dynamically tiled.
You can further customize the layouts for each view.
You can move windows to another view (virtual desktop) by tagging them with a
number.
You can share windows between views by tagging them with more than one
number.
You can move between views, hiding the windows, you do not want to see, and
showing those, you want to see, by pressing a simple hotkey.
What it can look like
Installing and running bug.n
Requirements
Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher
AutoHotkey 1.1.10 or higher (if running
bug.n from source as a script)
You may either
download the stable version of bug.n
from the repository, or
download the current development version
as the repository itself. Either way, you will have a zip file including an
executable (bugn.exe), the source (src\*) and documentation (doc\*)
files.
There is no installation process for bug.n. Unpack the zip file, and you
should be able to run either the executable as it is or the main script
(src\Main.ahk) with AutoHotkey.
Documentation
Please see the documentation for more information on
installing and running,
customizing and using bug.n and for
a list of changes made with the current version, in
particular the changes in the user interface
(configuration variables and
hotkeys).
Please see the CREDITS file for a list of people and projects,
which contributed to bug.n.
License
bug.n is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. Please see
the LICENSE file for the full license text.
Development
Currently, there is one branch, master, the current stable version (v9), which is no longer actively developed or maintained.
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2 points · Open discussionyou can implement the wm manager of your dreams in ahk ... in like 500 lines. it's amazing stuff.
you can also go all out: https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
In Show HN: AutoHotkey for LinuxI like TidyTabs [1] and AquaSnap [2] (both by Nurgo Software). They both make window management so much easier.
What I'd prefer is an open-source tiling window manager like i3. I've tried bug.n [3], but couldn't get it to work consistently for some reason.
[1] https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs
[2] https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap
[3] https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
In Developer and Power Users Tool List for WindowsYeah. I think it's also a perfect example of scope creep done right. As I understand, its original purpose was closer to remapping Caps Lock to CTRL, not to let you write a whole tiling window manager[0] for Windows in it. But now it can do both, and established itself as the unofficial Windows scripting language.
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[0] - https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
In In Praise of AutoHotKeyDon't know how it compares feature-wise to Karabiner/Goku, but on Windows, you can use AutoHotkey[0] to do all kinds of global input remapping, macros, etc. Someone even wrote a clone of DWM (tiling window manager) in AutoHotkey![1].
Personally, I use it mostly to remap CTRL to Caps Lock, but once I wrote a global GUI popup for inserting reaction emojis into conversations on my work machine. AHK is really easy to work with.
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[0] - https://www.autohotkey.com/
[1] - https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
In Hacking Your KeyboardRelated, bug.n is a DWM clone written in AutoHotkey, of all the things. I used it at work a few years ago, and I was very satisfied.
https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
In Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devicesI've been using bug.n [1] which has all of that except for being able to directly focus a window, instead having to iterate through with next/prev window. But otherwise it has everything I'd expect from a Linux tiling window manager, even coming with a customizable status bar.
It has its quirks and I had to spent some time adding exceptions and the auto resizing it does is certainly not the fastest thing in the world, but I'm more than willing to put up with it for the auto tiling.
On the whole, it's more reminiscent of xmonad than i3, but wasn't too bad to learn since you can bind what ever keys you want to whatever operations.
[1]https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n/
In Fancy Zones, a tiling window managerhttps://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n exists for Windows
In A Tiling Desktop EnvironmentAutoHotkey is amazing. It's a little gem of a Windows app. I only wish I discovered it earlier, when I was still using Windows as my main OS.
AHK can be used to trivially fix many usability warts you have with random software, and is powerful enough that someone implemented a clone of dwm tiling window manager in it (bug.n, [0], I used it for more than a year and can attest it works very well).
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[0] - https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
In Fucking Color Picker~Year ago, I had plenty of success with bug.n - https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n. It's a DWM clone written in... AutoHotkey, of all things.
In MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer toolsThere's an excess of width if you aren't a pro user, who knows how to take advantage of it. Linux has tiling WMs, Windows has basic tiling functionality + someone out there made a hackish tiling WM in AutoHotkey of all things[0]. But you're unlikely to discover this as a regular user, unless someone shows it to you.
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[0] - https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
In What makes BeOS and Haiku uniqueYou can probably use Autohotkey to achieve the same thing on Windows. It's a great tool to be aware of should you ever have to use Windows for any reason – you can also use it to push windows to virtual desktops and others, approaching a more Linux-y experience. Someone even wrote a tiling WM in AHK: https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
In Lobotomizing GnomeSo is your Dell 34" curved?
You can also try bug.n ( https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n ). It is also written with AutoHotkey.
In Ask HN: What are your impressions for using 1 big curved monitor for programming?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.
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