Paper WM

A scrollable tiling window manager layer on top of GNOME. Every app you open takes the full height of your screen, and is placed in a single row without overlapping any other apps. If your screen runs out of room, apps go off the edge of the screen, and can still be reached by scrolling or with keyboard shortcuts.

This is my number one favourite reason to use Linux. It's so satisfying to use that I tend to avoid using tabs, and open things in new windows instead.

When I moved back to Windows 10/11, I made Winfinity to attempt to emulate its behaviour.

PaperWM is written using JavaScript. Its open source and has a GitHub.

Other people's thoughts

Julia Evans wrote a piece in 2020: "I’ve been using PaperWM for 6 months on a laptop and I really like it! I also really appreciate that even though it’s configurable (by writing a Javascript configuration file), it does the things I want out of the box without me having to research how to configure it."

In 2020-Nov, It's Foss compared it to Material Shell and Regolith.

CardboardWM and EndlessWM are similar, but both are abandoned.