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Tile your windows as you like.

README

gTile

Usage

Super + G open gTile
Esc close gTile
ARROWS move with keyboard
Shift + ARROWS select area
Space or Enter tile the selected area

More options are available in Cinnamon Settings -> Extensions -> gTile@shuairan -> Settings.

This extension was originally developed by vibou and shuairan. It is now maintained by the community.

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w27y-2 months ago

Works great, most of the alternatives I've seen for Linux in general deal with window tile managers that completely remove your floating window/desktop environment. There's a ton of paid and free apps on Windows for snapping/tiling, but this was surprisingly difficult to find. I like how simple it is to switch to 2x2, 3x2, etc. Got this on a 50" 4k screen, as 3x2, and looks amazing, no wasted space.

Andrei Miculita-4 months ago

For some reason, sometimes my selection gets canceled after a few seconds if I try to select with my mouse. I'm using the 6x6 format. So if I'm dragging, it will randomly forget the tile I started with and act as if I just opened the extension.

orbitalchicken-6 months ago

How do I add a quick launch icon to gTile in my taskbar ? (what is the command line to start it instead of Gtrl+G ?)

Rubem Pacelli-7 months ago

Since I started on Mint, I have delved for a good window tilling. I found Gtile, but even so, it just has the basic function of shift+arrows to adjust the window on my screen, It is not enough. To my surprise, I found out that Ubuntu has this extension too, but with a lot of functions. So, what the difference between these two projects? Is it possible to install this gnome extension on Mint. Thanks in advance.

paulsurman-8 months ago

Frivolous is fun, but genuinely useful like this, is better. Thank you for this easy to use aid to tiling.

Maxcrazy1-8 months ago

How can I switch between one screen to another and how change the screen grid from keyboard?

ivanaponi-9 months ago

Where are the settings stored? I cannot find a config file or them in gsettings

ivanaponi-9 months ago

For some odd reason my SUPER+G key combo stopped working

ivanaponi-9 months ago

Also unable to access settings in the extension UI

ivanaponi-9 months ago

It's also not possible to disable now in the Manage extensions UI

xmo-odoo-8 months ago

Are you sure the extension is enabled in the first place? I've had the issue that the extension seemed to not work at all, but it just didn't enable on install.

skoufaki-10 months ago

very nice work - thanks a lot! if one could AutoTile all open windows only of a specific application it would be a blast ;)

Stefan Strohmeier-10 months ago

Great extension. I really love it. It works fine for me under Linux Mint 19.3 and Cinnamon 4.4.8. The only thing is that I cannot get a keyboard shortcut for AutoTile working. I tried a lot of things, e.g. checking the keycodes. They seem to be okay. Has anyone the keyboard shortcuts for AutoTile working on LM 19.3 and Cinn 4.4.8?

sellias-10 months ago

It's working on Fedora 32. Try pressing the hotkey and then running [c] $ less /var/log/syslog [c]

Rubem Pacelli-1 year ago

In Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia, Gtile doesn't fit when I set just for one tile. I need to hold shift to select 2 or more tile for the Gtile work correctly. Anyone know how to fix it? Besides that, Gtiles works fine.

sellias-10 months ago

If you're still wondering how to solve this problem; just click a second time on the one square in which you wish to place your windows. GTile waits for you to make a box shaped selection. When you click on that one tile it is waiting for where the selection finishes. So just click again on the same tile. Hope all is well!

Łukasz Dobrowolski-1 year ago

Nice idea. Not sure why but it does not work well for me. Windows are properly resized in X, but are cut in Y. https://termbin.com/297z multi screen, multiple virtual screen on single physical device It would be also nice if you add option to remember configured tiles.

Stigma67-1 year ago

I have the same problem. Does anyone have a solution for this?

leroyz84-1 year ago

Thank you for this add one! Maybe a feature request: Tile all active windows [horizontally|vertically] ?

leroyz84-1 year ago

edit: i see it's there! Love it; thank you!

Lowrida-1 year ago

"More options are available in Cinnamon Settings -> Extensions -> gTile@shuairan -> Settings." Not in Mint 19.2 Cinnamon. I had to edit extention.js and remove the three slashes in front of the 'const' !

Christopher Nash-1 year ago

I've just upgraded from Linux Mint 19.1 to Mint 19.2 and this extension has stopped working. I get the message "Problems during Cinnamon startup" dialog box when I log into Mint. What information can I give to have this fixed? (I'm so lost without having it... :-p )

Mikko Vedru-1 year ago

Disable and enable the extension again. Seemed to work for me, at least partly.

Sebastian Haas-2 years ago

Hey, is there any way to call gTile from CLI / Bash / zsh? I'd like to use it to create hotkeys for positions. Something like "gTile 4x4 1 2" which would describe the 4x4 tiles and first column second row e.g. Thank you for the extension :)

Lorenz Stangier-1 year ago

I don't think (or at least I don't know of any) way to use gtile as command line tool. You could check out http://tripie.sweb.cz/utils/wmctrl/ instead. You can move/resize windows with it from the commandline.

watercolorhearts-2 years ago

Hi, where is the README.md located for this when installing it using Extensions menu in Linux Mint system settings? Thanks.

bbuist-2 years ago

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-extensions/blob/master/gTile@shuairan/files/gTile@shuairan/README.md

Eric Adams-2 years ago

Has anyone had luck getting this to work on Cinnamon 3.8?

sellias-10 months ago

It's working on 4.4.8! Give it another shot!

Dustin Falgout-2 years ago

Works fine for me on Cinnamon 3.6.7

Andrea Moro-3 years ago

Doesn't seem to work on Mint 18.3. The super key + space doesn't activate the panel.

sellias-10 months ago

It's working on 4.4.8! Give it another shot!

bbuist-2 years ago

Have you enabled the extension? This got me the first time, I thought downloading was enough. Click the + to enable.

Futureknows-3 years ago

Can it run on Fedora 27 Cinnamon (Cinnamon v3.6.6)?

sellias-10 months ago

It's working on 4.4.8! Give it another shot!

garfazadeh-3 years ago

This is exactly what I need. I would love to have settings for window margins as well.

Brian A-3 years ago

I'm running Mint 18.2 Cinnamon, fully updated. This extension looks really useful. Unfortunately, when I try to install it, via the settings application, it reports: - "Extension gTile@shuairan is not compatible with current version of cinnamon. Using it may break your system. "

sellias-10 months ago

It's working on 4.4.8! Give it another shot!

Jeremy Garcia-3 years ago

Also running 18.2 and got the same error; it's really a general disclaimer because the dev can't account for future changes in Cinnamon. You can click "yes" to load extension anyway - it seems to more or less or less work. When using the Auto-Tile function the window positioning has a negative vertical offset, so the tops of windows won't use the very top of the screen, and the bottom of windows will be cut off by the bottom panel. This issue may be specific to my system (i.e. might conflict with another extension). Manual tiling doesn't have this issue. So it works for me and hasn't broken my system.

gTile

README

gTile

Usage

CHANGELOG

1.0.0

Original Changelog

v0.7

v0.6

v0.5

v0.3 thx to dalcde

v0.2

v0.1

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