Tiler - A tiling manager for your desktop
Tiler is a lightweight tiling utility for X Window Managers. It uses keyboard shortcuts to organize windows on your desktop on demand. This provides a very convenient way of moving/resizing windows, for instance by showing side-by-side two windows. This is especially useful for large screens.
An admitted goal is to provide a comparable tool as the (very great) WinSplit Revolution available on Windows.
Now with multi-screen support!
Examples
The default configuration file provides keybindings using the keypad of full sized keyboards.
- CTRL+ALT+3 : resize and move active window to fit the bottom-right quadrant of the screen
- CTRL+ALT+8 : resize and move active window to fit the upper half of the screen
- CTRL+ALT+Enter : organize the two most recently used windows side by side
- CTRL+ALT+5 : organize the four most recently used windows on a grid
Tested configurations
- Openbox + dual screen on Debian
- Gnome3 (Mutter) + dual screen on Debian
- Compiz + dual/single screen on Ubuntu
Tiler with Openbox - dual headed
Tiler with Compiz - dual headed
Requirements
Your window manager is expected to be EWMH compliant and implementing the whole window manager standard (http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest/). KWin (KDE) and Metacity (Gnome) are ok with that, some workarounds have been written for the use with Compiz.
The program is written in C with very few dependencies, you will only need the following (and their headers): `libc`, `libm`, `libx11`
Installation
$ make # make install
Things & stuff
- Layout may sometimes look weird because of window constraints such as "resizing step" (mostly in terminals) or minimum window size. Theses may not allow to fit the desired window geometry and especially affects small resolutions
- Windows shadowing causes trouble in general (yes Compiz, I'm looking at you)
Source code, bug reports, ideas and more at http://www.github.com/gliss/tiler Unfortunately, login is required to post on Github, if you do not have an account, you can also send an email to tiler-dev@acadis.org
Licensing
This program and its documentation are released under the terms of the BSD license.