> If you just wanted the windowing and tiling, wouldn't a tiling window manager be better? It's kind of weird that you concluded the right layer for window tiling was the terminal emulator.

I tried a tiling window manager (not sure which) a long time ago and didn't like it, it felt too heavy-handed and unnatural to me. My daily driver is:

- GNOME Shell ...

- ... with the occasional Super+{Left/Right} for basic half-screen splits (e.g. term on the left and editor on the right)...

- ... and I use a little helper script ( https://github.com/ronjouch/marathon ) to run-or-focus apps.

With these three things, I meet my "simple tiling" needs and keep the flexibility I like from non-tiling WMs.

But Sway looks cool, I'll definitely try it one of these days :) , maybe I'll change my mind.