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Cortile: auto-tiling manager that runs on top of your current window manager for X11

Posted on 2024-05-23 by pappp

Source: OSNews

Article note: That's neat. There have been a few tiling assistants (mostly for X, occasionally for other major OSes) over the years, they never seem to quite persist. This one is charmingly generic because it relies on things that work in X that have intentionally been abdicated in Wayland, even though Wayland is largely by the people responsible for things like EWMH and ICCM and basic support for programmatic window control that make this kind of portable software possible.

Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system. Therefore, this project provides dynamic tiling for XFCE, LXDE, LXQt, KDE and GNOME (Mate, Deepin, Cinnamon, Budgie) based desktop environments.

Simply keep your current window manager and install cortile on top of it. Once enabled, the tiling manager will handle resizing and positioning of existing and new windows.

↫ Cortile GitHub page

I’ve always been mildly interested in trying out a proper tiling window manager – of which are millions – but installing and setting up an entirely new environment always felt a bit like overkill for something I’m just curious about instead of actually intending to use it permanently. This seems like a great solution to this issue.

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