I need extremely small tiling windows, say something with only a width/height of 10px. However, by experimentation I found that my window manager Sway (and likely also i3) has a hard-coded minimum height of 60px and minimum width of 100px.

So, dear Linux gurus, do you know of a window manager with configurable minimum tiling window size? Or with no minimum at all? Bonus point for running natively on Wayland.

  • tal@lemmy.today
    8·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t tried creating tiny windows, but I would imagine that it would be pretty easy for you to just install compositors on Wayland or window managers on Xorg and test it yourself.

    But, bigger question – I’m kind of curious why you’re dead-set on a bunch of tiny tiled windows to the extent of being willing to disregard other functionality of the window manager or even the windowing system. Like, what is your use case? Is this some kind of automated testing system?

      • tal@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 year ago

        For the burn-in part, I don’t know about Wayland, but with X11, I’m pretty sure that you can use RANDR – see the xrandr command – to entirely slice part of the screen away. Like, you don’t need to put dummy windows there or whatever, and that’ll work with any WM.

        • sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Cool, thanks! Look like there are things like xrandr for Wayland with this functionality. the burn-in is not so bad right now but I’ll keep this in mind.