Tmux instead tiling window managers

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:55:43 +0000

I’ve never used tiling window managers like i3 or awesome on my workstations. Perhaps I’m wrong, and I should definitely give them a try and always use them in the future. But for several years now, I’ve been using a different compromise: instead of tiling the entire screen, I tile the space only in the terminal using tmux and this config. From the outside, it looks just as cool as using a tiling window manager, but I don’t have to worry about forgetting a hotkey combination and having my work grind to a halt for the entire day. Admit it, you, too, in emergency situations, when something goes wrong, are the first thing you reach for your mouse?

I3wm on Artem Yegorov

Tmux instead tiling window managers