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Window tiling manager for Linux

Drag and tile windows to pre-configured positions. Enhances productivity with ultrawide displays, Makes better use of screen real estate by tiling windows and programs intelligently.

  • Requires "X Window system" manager (X11) such as:
    • Gnome, Xfce, unity, KDE etc.

Dependencies

installation instruction are for ubuntu based systems.

  • Xlib library:
    • $ sudo apt-get update
    • $ sudo apt-get install python-xlib
  • tkinter:
    • $ sudo apt-get install python3-tk

Tested on:

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Gnome 3.18
  • manjaro - xfce 18.1.3
  • Pop!_OS 19.04 - Gnome 3.32.2
  • Pop!_OS 19.10 - Gnome 3.34.3
  • Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS - Gnome 3.28.2

Running instructions

  • Disable gnome's native edge tiling:
    • $ dconf write /org/gnome/mutter/edge-tiling false
  • $ python3 wintile.py

Usage

  • Drag and drop into predefined areas to auto tile:
    • upper left/right corner -> populate left/right 2/3 of the display
    • upper middle edge -> populate centered 7/10 display area
    • middle left/right edge -> populate left/right display half
    • bottom left/middle/right third edge -> populate left/middle/right display third

Demo

Demo gif