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PaperWM is a scrolling window manager for the GNOME Shell. It's similar to tiling window managers like dwm and XMonad, but instead of tiling windows within the desktop, windows scroll to the right as they are created. So you just navigate left and right to various windows.

I like the conceptual idiom a lot better than normal tiling. I'm not sure if it works for me in practice. I've tried it in Debian 12/GNOME Shell 43.9 and installed the extension from extensions.gnome.org here on my laptop. I usually use each window in full screen on my laptop and alt-tab between them, so I'm not sure how useful the scrolling is for me. After an hour or so of use, it does seem to encourage me to have more than one window at a time on the desktop.

The default keybinding for switch window is super+tab, but I like alt+tab a lot better, so had to add that. The instructions on moving around and re-sizing windows are a bit confusing to me. I'm yet to really figure it-out.