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Welcome to Plaid

Plaid is a tiling window manager for GNOME Shell — it arranges your windows for you, so you never have to drag and resize them by hand. Open a couple of apps and Plaid splits the screen into neat, organized sections. Close one and everything reflows automatically.

It also comes with plenty of polish: gradient borders, rounded corners, window blur, a drop-down terminal, a scratchpad, and even live desktop backgrounds.

Getting started

1. Grab the latest release from Releases
2. Install it (see Install)
3. Log out and back in

That's it — Plaid takes over and organizes your windows. Everything else is optional customization.

Where to go next

• Install — install, update, uninstall
• Keybindings — the keyboard shortcuts
• Layouts & Settings — the window arrangements and what each setting does
• Floating windows — keeping windows free from tiling
• Scratchpad, Drop-Down Terminal & Background App — the extras
• Terminal Settings — the plaid-* shell commands
• Troubleshooting — things go wrong? Start here
• Contributing — reporting bugs and helping out

The short version

• Tiling: your windows are arranged automatically into organized layouts
• Layouts: four to choose from, per workspace
• Keybinds: everything is keyboard-driven and remappable
• Flair: borders, rounded corners, blur, gradients
• Extras: drop-down terminal, scratchpad, live backgrounds, workspaces pill
• Requirements: GNOME 50+ on Wayland