I used to use Sway and I found tiling to be useful only when using multiple terminals. Tmux allows me to have tiling functionalities for terminals while having a full desktop environment for all other applications.
Why do we need tmux if we have tiling window managers?
For most people using a tiling window manager is something they want for their whole user experience, not just for tiling terminals haha
Because not everything can be viewed in terminal, crab_man
I’ve tried hard to get libreoffice and dvddisaster to render in a terminal but for some reason it never works… 😏
You could probably get it to work in a framebuffer… 😏
Probably not though, although some apps like mpv, (maybe vlc) and mplayer can, plus QT and a GTK fork have support too.
I guess if you have to use a classical terminal or terminal emulator, but I was more talking about drawing apps directly to the Linux console without X or another sort of windowing system.
For example this is Midori, a web browser:
Because I don’t want my Firefox window overlapping my Vim window.
