> Having windows haphazardly piled on top of each other makes me very anxious and stressed out.
I've found that overlapping windows makes sense for "gui" like applications: Half of the screen is too small for a web browser or a graphical email program or an IDE.
So these days I make do with a program that allows me to use keyboard shortcuts to move the current window to a specific position and size (different shortcuts for different positions and sizes). In this way, I spend very little time moving windows around, as I just need to hit the key for the position I want.
Also, I don't tend to move windows around, e.g. my terminal is always at the same spot, and my browser is also always at the same spot (different than the terminal). So I don't have to touch a window often.
Which program so you use? I felt that xmonad just broke too many flows and was too big an investment as a user, but I'd like to be able to control my windows without using my trackpad
Right now I use Hammerspoon for macOS. I used to use Phoenix. On Windows there was AutoHotkey. On X11 I think the twm family allows you to move Windows to specific positions and sizes. There was also sawfish. Maybe wmctrl is a relatively modern thing and works with Gnome and KDE and other environments. What to do on Wayland I don’t know.
I've found that overlapping windows makes sense for "gui" like applications: Half of the screen is too small for a web browser or a graphical email program or an IDE.
So these days I make do with a program that allows me to use keyboard shortcuts to move the current window to a specific position and size (different shortcuts for different positions and sizes). In this way, I spend very little time moving windows around, as I just need to hit the key for the position I want.
Also, I don't tend to move windows around, e.g. my terminal is always at the same spot, and my browser is also always at the same spot (different than the terminal). So I don't have to touch a window often.