A tiling window manager extension for gnome-shell. Many tiling window managers are an all-or-nothing affair, shellshape allows you to tile your windows when it makes sense, and still provides powerful direct manipulation when you need it. You don't have to give up any of the gnome features you like, so it makes for a very smooth learning curve.
This software is in-development. I use it daily, but it might break stuff. Use at your own risk. Multiple monitor support is not really present, and doing fancy things like "always on top" windows may or may not break it.
I must thank bluetile, for it was the inspiration for this extension and many features are lifted directly from it (although not code, JS and haskell are vastly different beasts).
Briefly, 0launch http://gfxmonk.net/dist/0install/shellshape.xml. If you don't have 0launch, you should install the zeroinstall-injector package first.
For more details, please see instructions on http://gfxmonk.net/shellshape/
To run your own checkout, you should be able to clone this repo and run 0launch shellshape-local.xml. As of gnome-shell 3.4.1, you can also / instead install the development version locally. In the root of the repo, run:
ln -s "$PWD/shellshape" "~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/shellshape@gfxmonk.net"
Is hard, error-prone, and no longer supported. Sorry!
You may want to try this user-maintained package if the normal method doesn't work for you, but I have no idea what it will do to your system.
If you don't know why, here's some things to check:
- Check the extension is enabled (you can see this in the "Shell Extensions" section of `gnome-tweak-tool`)
- See if there are any errors in looking glass that mention shellshape (press alt-F2, type "`lg`" and then click the "Errors" tab)
- Check the console output (if running in a console) for any messages that mention shellshape
- Check /tmp/shellshape.log after launching with $SHELLSHAPE_DEBUG=all
To report a bug or crash, please see the github issues page.
If you symlink the provided gnome-shell.desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications/, gnome-session will use that to launch gnome-shell instead of the system's gnome-shell. Uninstalling is as simple as removing that file.
This extension is best used with the natural window placement extension.
Other extensions I use and recommend:
- alternate status menu (the fact that this is not default bewilders me)
- workspace switcher
All of these should be available from your package manager, or the gnome shell extensions page
The core layout stuff is in tiling.coffee. This should run in both the shell and in the web browser (see interactive/index.html; useful for testing layout changes). The mutter / gnome-shell integration is provided by the other .js files in the root directory (except for tiling.js, it is generated from tiling.coffee).
If you export SHELLSHAPE_DEBUG=all, you will get a debug log written to /tmp/shellshape.log. You can set values other than all if you want to debug on specific topics (available topics include extension, indicator, tiling, workspace and window) - they should be set as a comma-delimited string, e.g SHELLSHAPE_DEBUG=workspace,tiling.
Note debugging like this won't work unless you run using 0launch.
GPLv3