Desktop users struggle to make window layouts fit their workflow
People who work across many apps want more control over how windows are tiled, grouped, and restored across workspaces. Existing tools and built-in features leave specific gaps: users ask for scrollable layouts, reliable saved zones, per-workspace rules, and ways to manage related windows together. Some switch window managers or even return to Linux, while others keep arranging windows by hand.
For power users who juggle many desktop windows. Mentioned from Jan 2024 to Jan 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
10 different people described this problem in 10 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 5.0/10
- Pain
- 5.8/10
- Frequency
- 8.6/10
- Willingness to pay
- 3.2/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I would pay a lot of money for a good tiling wm for a mac, not sure how it's not a thing. It's one of the main reasons I keep going back to linux, everything else I don't care about much
This is SO close to being perfect for what I'm looking for. I just need better support for handling multiple windows of the same app in a workspace. Is there a way to create a workspace manually in the desktop and save it?
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