bspwm Description
Bspwm, a tiling windows manager, represents windows as leaves on a binary tree. It only responds X events and messages received on a dedicated socket. bspc, a program which writes messages to bspwm socket. bspwm does not handle keyboard or pointer inputs. A third-party program, such as sxhkd, is required. Sxhkd is required to translate keyboard and mouse events into bspc calls. Monitors can only display the tree for one desktop (the desktop that is currently focused). The tree is a division of the rectangle of a monitor into smaller rectangular areas.
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MaxTo
The window manager that you didn't even know you were missing Divide your screen and increase productivity with Windows. You can easily divide your screen into the exact regions that you want. The window will be automatically moved to the region under the mouse cursor. You can have a different set on virtual desktops. You can choose to have each virtual desktop have its own set profiles using our handy setting. MaxTo presets allow you to quickly load your favorite regions when you need them. Assigning a keyboard short-cut is the fastest way to load up a set. When you edit your regions, you can see a preview the presets that you are applying. Launch and place multiple applications at once. You can use our powerful recipe features to start and place the programs you want. Scripts allow you to do anything that can be done using keyboard shortcuts.
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herbstluftwm
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FancyZones
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SMBAct
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