For the software developer, the financial analyst with four Bloomberg terminals, the writer researching across 12 PDFs, the video editor with a timeline, bins, and preview window:
You log into Windows. The desktop looks normal, but the moment you open an app, the magic begins.
For decades, the default Windows desktop metaphor has remained largely unchanged: overlapping, floating windows that you manually drag, resize, and stack. For many users, this "pile of papers" approach works fine. But for developers, writers, data analysts, and power users, it feels chaotic, inefficient, and slow.
komorebi is not for the faint of heart. It is a complete windowing system that uses (a hotkey daemon) for shortcuts. It supports floating windows, stacking layouts (like a deck of cards within a tile), bsp (binary space partitioning) layouts, and even custom layouts via JSON. It feels like a hybrid of bspwm and i3.
For the software developer, the financial analyst with four Bloomberg terminals, the writer researching across 12 PDFs, the video editor with a timeline, bins, and preview window:
You log into Windows. The desktop looks normal, but the moment you open an app, the magic begins. windows tiling window manager
For decades, the default Windows desktop metaphor has remained largely unchanged: overlapping, floating windows that you manually drag, resize, and stack. For many users, this "pile of papers" approach works fine. But for developers, writers, data analysts, and power users, it feels chaotic, inefficient, and slow. For the software developer, the financial analyst with
komorebi is not for the faint of heart. It is a complete windowing system that uses (a hotkey daemon) for shortcuts. It supports floating windows, stacking layouts (like a deck of cards within a tile), bsp (binary space partitioning) layouts, and even custom layouts via JSON. It feels like a hybrid of bspwm and i3. For many users, this "pile of papers" approach works fine
