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