- Daniel Aleksandersen
- 3 minute read
I’ve been having a lot of fun with Cardboard, the scrollable tiling window manager (WM) (STWM) for Linux. It’s quite an unusual WM, and it’s really only at the prototype stage. After the initial learning curve, I found that it helped me stay focused on one task, and it greatly reduced how much time I spent rearranging my windows.
You’re probably most familiar with a stacking WM; an environment where you [mostly manually] arrange windows next to – or on top of each other. This is what you’ll be familiar with from Windows and MacOS.
Cardboard automatically arranges all windows side-by-side on a continuous scrolling horizontal plane. As you switch between apps, either by keyboard shortcuts or by scrolling, you move left or right through the scrolling plane of windows. It’s a bit hard to describe, so I made a little demo video:
Cardboard window manager demo video
The WM isn’t suitable for day-to-day use by m
