NAME¶
bluetile - full-featured tiling for the GNOME desktop environment
SYNOPSIS¶
bluetile [--help] [--version] [--restart]
DESCRIPTION¶
Bluetile is a tiling window manager designed to integrate with the GNOME
desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as
well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen
without overlapping.
Bluetile tries to make the tiling paradigm easily
accessible to users coming from traditional window managers by drawing on
known conventions and providing both mouse and keyboard access for all
features.
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- Designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop
environment
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- Hybrid approach: Stacking window layout & tiling
layouts available
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- All features accessible from mouse, as well as
keyboard
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- Maximizing & minimizing windows in all layouts
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- Good multihead support
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- Proper handling of fullscreen applications
OVERVIEW¶
To quickly get up and running just start
Bluetile from your current
window manager/desktop environment (preferably GNOME).
Bluetile will
replace the currently running window manager (if the window manager supports
this) and start up.
One way to set up
Bluetile as your default window manager under GNOME is
to make sure that the environment variable WINDOW_MANAGER contains the path to
the
Bluetile binary before GNOME starts. This can be achieved by
putting something like the following line into ~/.gnomerc:
export WINDOW_MANAGER=bluetile
If you use a packaged version of
Bluetile, your distribution might
already provide you with a preconfigured xsession.
OPTIONS¶
--help print help message
--version print the version number
--restart request a running
Bluetile process to restart
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS¶
This is a list of most keyboard shortcuts for
Bluetile:
Win+Return Launch terminal
Win+p Launch GNOME "Run application" dialog
Win+a Switch to stacking window layout
Win+s Switch to tiled horizontal layout
Win+d Switch to tiled vertical layout
Win+f Switch to fullscreen layout
Win+j Move focus to the next window
Win+k Move focus to the previous window
Win+Space Move focus to the master window
Win+Shift+j Swap the focused window with the next window
Win+Shift+k Swap the focused window with the previous window
Win+Shift+Space Swap the focused window with the master window
Win+h Shrink the master area
Win+l Expand the master area
Win+u Shrink a slave area
Win+i Expand a slave area
Win+, Increment the number of windows in the master area
Win+. Decrement the number of windows in the master area
Win+Shift+c Close the focused window
Win+z Maximize/zoom focused window
Win+m Minimize focused window
Win+Shift+m Restore next minimized window
Win+o Show window menu for focused window
Win+t Push dialog window back into tiling
Win+b Toggle to previously displayed workspace
Win+1 .. Win+9, Win+0
Switch to workspace N
Win+Shift+1 .. Win+Shift+9, Win+Shift+0
Move client to workspace N
Win+w, Win+e, Win+r
Switch to physical/Xinerama screens 1, 2 or 3
Win+Shift+w, Win+Shift+e, Win+Shift+r
Move client to physical/Xinerama screen 1, 2 or 3
Win+F5 Refresh layout
Win+Shift+q Quit Bluetile
CONFIGURATION¶
Edit the file ~/.bluetilerc to configure
Bluetile.
AUTHOR¶
Jan Vornberger <jan.vornberger@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>