I got tired of manually snapping windows around so I built tidewm —
a tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 that arranges everything
automatically.
You open an app, it tiles. You close one, everything redistributes.
No clicks, no dragging, no thought required.
What it does
- Automatically tiles every resizable window
- 4 layouts: tall, wide, bsp, monocle — switchable at runtime
- Smooth animations
- ~0% CPU at idle, 2-4 MB RAM
- Windows that can't be resized (dialogs, fixed-size tools) are left untouched
The invisible border problem
Windows 10/11 add a 7px invisible border around every window for the
DWM shadow. Without compensation, windows that should be flush have a
visible gap. tidewm corrects for this automatically.
Hotkeys
Alt + H/L to focus, Alt + 1/2/3/4 to switch layouts, Alt + Q to quit.
Modifier is configurable.
Animations
Cubic ease-out curve. We tried spring physics at some point.
It looked terrible. lmfao.