TILING

Description

Tiling provides a simple window tiling system for linux. This is for those who cannot (or don't want to) use a tiling window manager like awesome or Xmonad.

There is no menu nor GUI in tiling. This is because I want to keep tiling as simple as possible. You just (optionaly) focus a window and press a keyboard shortcut and that's it: all windows in the current virtual desktop are tiled.

For now tiling provides two layouts: horizontal and vertical, where a «master» window occupy the top, or the left, of the screen, while remaining windows share the rest of the screen.

Examples

Install

Installing the gem

Using rvm is highly recommended.

If your system ruby is at least 1.9.2 :

rvm use system
gem install tiling

That's it, go to create keyboard shortcuts. But if your system ruby is older, you'll need the following trick.

rvm use 1.9.3@global
gem install tiling

Now, copy the file shell/tiling.sh somewhere in your path (maybe in $HOME/bin) and edit the last but one line to reflect your rvm settings.

Create keyboard shortcuts

In Debian, open System > Preferences > Keyboard shortcuts. Click Add to add a new shortcuts. In name, enter «Horizontal layout», in command, enter «tiling -H» (uppercase H). If you are using tiling.sh, you have to enter «tiling.sh -H» instead of «tiling -H».

Then close the dialog and make your shortcut, maybe Mod4+h, or Ctrl+Alt+h, or whatever you want.

Do this again for a second shortcut. Name it «Vertical layout», enter the command «tiling -V» (or «tiling.sh -V») and make the shortcut you want. Note the uppercase V.

Usage

Easy. Focus a window and type your shortcut.

Dependencies

ruby >= 1.9.2

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2013 Xavier Nayrac

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Questions and/or Comments

Feel free to email Xavier Nayrac with any questions.