Automatic Program Launch
Tiling window managers are often programmatic in nature, for example the Ion window manager includes a Lua scripting engine for both configuration and startup functions, in additional to modular function libraries. Where as a conventional coordinate based Stacked desktop methaphor environment (Windows platform) has a Startup folder with applications to launch, programmable tiling window managers can specificy (with a default window property) which tiles or frames an application should appear in.
Common uses for this are setting up a development environment with IDE and terminal windows, or an image, video, or audio editting environment with multiple screens.
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