Arranging Windows

In tiling mode you build your layout by dragging windows onto each other. Where you drop decides what happens: stack windows as tabs, split a tile side-by-side, stack panes as rows, or spin off a brand-new column. This page covers all three combine gestures plus the drop-zone overlay that previews every landing spot.

These gestures apply to the tiling strip. For the float/tile hold gestures (snapping a floating window in, popping a tiled one out), see Snapping-and-Pop-out. For sizing and moving whole columns, see Columns-and-Widths. Most of these actions also have a right-click menu equivalent — see Context-Menus.

Tabs: stack windows in one tile

Tabbed windows share a single tile and show a tab strip; only one is visible at a time.

• Drag a window onto another window's top band to stack them as tabs sharing one tile. (A floating window can also be Alt-dragged onto a target to dock as a tab in its column — see Snapping-and-Pop-out.)
• Click a tab in the tile's tab strip to switch between the tabbed windows.
• Drag the empty part of a tab strip to move the whole group. Dropped on the float band, the group breaks up and each window floats on its own.

Dragging a title bar works with a mouse (or pen); on a touch screen it does nothing, so use the title-bar menu instead (Stack/Tab/Move column, Column width).

The title-bar menu offers the same thing without dragging:

Menu item	What it does
Tab into left column	Tab this window into the neighbor column's live tile (to the left)
Tab into right column	Tab this window into the neighbor column's live tile (to the right)
Tab this window	Seed or keep a tab strip in place

Untabbing

To pull windows back out of a tab strip, click the strip's ⊟ button (Split into rows, or Drop tabs side by side on a nested group), or use the title-bar menu:

Menu item	What it does
Untab tile (split to rows)	Breaks the tab strip into stacked rows
Untab cell (side by side)	Drops a nested split-group's tabs out as adjacent side-by-side cells

Splits: side-by-side panes

A split places two windows next to each other inside one tile.

• Drag a window onto the LEFT or RIGHT interior of another window to split that tile horizontally, placing the two side-by-side.
• Drag the gutter between the panes to resize them.

Un-splitting

• Un-split row (split to rows) in the window context menu explodes a split row into stacked rows.
• Untab cell (side by side) appears only when the pane is a nested tab-group cell, dropping its tabs out side by side.
• There is no menu item that merges a split back into one pane — to dissolve a split differently, just drag a pane somewhere else.

Stacks: rows in a column

• Drag a window onto the upper or lower part of another window's interior (below its top tab band) to stack it as a row above or below that window in the same column.
• Or right-click the title bar → Stack into left column / Stack into right column to add the window as a new bottom row of the neighbouring column.
• Drag the horizontal gutter to resize the rows.

The drop-zone cheat sheet

While you drag, a highlighted overlay previews exactly where the window will land. Aim for the zone that matches the layout you want:

Drop on…	Result
A column's far left / right edge	A NEW column
A window's top band	TAB into that tile
A window's interior left / right quadrant	A SPLIT (side by side)
A window's interior top / bottom quadrant	A SPLIT into rows
The bottom band of the desktop	FLOAT the window

Watch the overlay before you release: if the highlight doesn't show the layout you want, move the cursor to a different zone and the preview updates. Dropping on a column edge is the drag equivalent of the menu's "Move to new column" — see Columns-and-Widths for column moves and width presets.

Related pages

• Snapping-and-Pop-out — hold-to-snap a floating window into the strip and pop a tiled one out to a float
• Columns-and-Widths — width presets, moving and focusing columns
• Context-Menus — the full right-click reference for tab / untab / split actions
• Window-Modes — floating vs. tiling and the tiling strip
• MCP-and-AI-Agents — with Allow MCP to arrange the desktop on, an MCP agent can focus, move, size, tile, float, tab and split windows on the browser that holds the lease (get_desktop / arrange_window).