for cinnamon 2.x
This extension has been developped by vibou. Cinnamon-fork by shuairan.
Installation:
Either install using the extensions manager or for manual installation:
clone from github
git clone https://github.com/shuairan/gTile.git
then copy/move to extensions folder
mv gTile ~/.local/share/cinnamon/extensions/gTile@shuairan
Usage:
Super+Space open gTile (you can change this on extension-settings)
then use mouse or keyboard:
Esc close gTile
ARROWS move with keyboard
Shift+ARROWS select area
Space or Enter tile the selected area
Additional Information:
Cinnamon has also an own window tiling function with various hotkeys Learn more about it
this extension will provide an other way to tile your window, via a small overlay on your currently focused application
Changelog:
-
v0.7
- Cinnamon 2.4
- put all settings to extension setting screen
- AutoTile: only tile non-minimized windows
- AutoTile: improve on multi monitor (only tile windows in current screen)
-
v0.6
- merge some upstream changes from vibou.gTile (V21)
- exclude some apps with no wm_class. This is a wild guess to find apps which should not be tiled (like Hangouts)
- hide on escape
- better multi-monitor support
- new feature: select and tile by keyboard (move with Arrows, Shift+Arrow to select area, space or enter to tile window)
for full changelog see CHANGELOG.md