The Andrew Project (AP or tAP) was a desktop client system (like early GNOME) for X with a tiling and overlapping window manager. Its features are described by its promotional video. RTL ran on X11R2 and R3, mainly on the 'native' Siemens systems, e.g., SINIX. One of the early (created in 1988) tiling WMs was Siemens' RTL, up to today a textbook example because of its algorithms of automated window scaling, placement and arrangement, and (de)iconification. In 1986 came Digital Research's GEM 2.0, a windowing system for the CP/M which used tiling by default. Microsoft's Windows 1.0 (released in 1985) also used tiling (see sections below). Next in 1983 came Andrew WM, a complete tiled windowing system later replaced by X11. Later, Xerox PARC also developed CEDAR (released in 1982), the first windowing system using a tiled window manager.

The first Xerox Star system (released in 1981) tiled application windows, but allowed dialogs and property windows to overlap. In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more common approach (used by stacking window managers) of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects ( windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor. Still, they are remembered if you are not AFK for too long (don't know exactly how long).The dwm window manager with the screen divided into four tiles. I might work for you too.Įdit: Windows settings window is not saved.Įdit2: Windows Explorer, for me, is a bit unaligned.Įdit3: So, was away from the pc a few hours. This feature is not highlighted on their website, so I was surprised it worked. Today I downloaded Aquasnap (there is a free limited version) and it seems my window positions (at least for Windows Explorer and Foobar2000 - the last one drove me crazy) are saved, after snapping them. But the program is not free, and for me it only works sometimes, and the program is not so intuitive. I have tried most suggestions in those threads (the best one being Windowmanager. This is my original post:Īll posts about Windows 10 not remembering window positions seems to be archived. The free version seems to work for the intended use. As wolfcry0 suggests (read comments), Displayfusion is another option (and my current favorit).

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