I am new to the Linux community and I just managed to reinstall Linux. I don't know how window tiling works and also how to make my environment more beautiful like all those amazing arch environments with pipes going around and weird but beautiful things going on. I know that on mint XFCE all these things might be restricted but I am sure I could make some things work to look beautiful.
#Costumization suggestions for newcomer
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Like these
i3wm, picom, polybar, nitrogen, and rofi is a good start, just make sure to download the updated configs and versions. An example would be picom not being the latest version on the software manager which is why you would need to learn how to build it using the yshui picom repo.
Happy Ricing!
How can I download it
depends on what distro or desktop environment
you currently have
you can't auto-tile on any Linux Mint distro
you can have windows snap to corners by dragging though
if you want easy auto-tile, ready out of the box, use Pop OS
If you want to be on Linux Mint, cinnamon desktop, then see #1370807950557577247 message @knotty turret for XFCE, see pling.com
be aware if you install awesome, i3, or dwm, those are EXTREMELY barebones things. you will need to watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX26s8INUYo in full to understand better.
especially what he says at 0:44
I was planning to use picom
But I don't know if there is something more fancy than this
picom is strictly a compositor. its only job is to do transparency. XFCE uses xfwm as its window manager to draw and manage windows. you can look in Window Manager/tweaks settings in XFCE Control Panel to adjust properties and effects of the window composition.
see #1370807950557577247 message
you can also easily install TWISTER UI onto Mint xfce, and have many looks, ready to go.
Your the GOAT thanks man
Can I mention anything else if it's possible
well, we went over that tiling isn't a thing in xfce, you can adjust transparency of terminal, or install another fancy terminal like cool-retro-term
you can establish a login sound fairly easily using a command called aplay and a microsoft wav audio file (any file, as long as it's in simple ms wav format)
you can put a cute screensaver, mint xfce may have some already included.
you can recolour the pane or adjust its opacity, using panel preferences... add a dock as I posted about above in the ricing link