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Tiling window managers organise their child windows into portions of the screen without overlapping.

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Window tiling (Move-to-{corner,side}) shortcuts in Ubuntu 13.04

I am trying to figure out how I can change the window tiling shortcuts in Ubuntu 13.04. Currently, they are set to numpadn. First I tried to check the shortcuts available in keyboard settings in System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts >…
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xubuntu 12.10 window tiling shortcuts

To align a window to left/right/top/bottom half of a screen with mouse you should go to 'settings editor' -> 'xfwm4' and uncheck 'wrap_windows' property. Now you can drag window beyond the edge of the screen to tile it. But what are keyboard…
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Smart Window Tiling for Gnome

Over the summer, I had the opportunity to use a Macbook for my internship. Although I really did enjoy it, I missed the customization of Ubuntu. However, there was one app that I really missed, called Mosaic. It was a graphical interface to window…
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Ubuntu 18.04: Put window into screen corner

I have an external 4K display on my laptop with plenty of space, that I usually use like four individual monitors in a grid. So I tend to put one window in every corner of the screen (IDE, terminal, browser, etc.). In Ubuntu 16.04, Unity offered to…
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Tiling window management with Unity

EDIT: XMonad can be made to play well with Unity: http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/ (thanks hvr) I'm looking for a tiling window manager to use with Unity. I would like the manager to place all the windows for me, as XMonad does, though…
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Xubuntu tiling: how to maximize terminal window for partial tiling?

I have problem when do tiling terminal in Xubuntu 14.10. Those terminal emulators (I've test with xfce4-terminal, xterm, and gnome-terminal) can be resized only by width/height of font they are using, thus it can not resized by 1px, see Fig 1. Fig…
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Tiling window management - triple tiling

I use window tiling with keyboard shortcuts a lot on my Ubuntu. However, back in the days when I was using an XP OS at work, I found a great tiling manager software called Splitview. The difference which Splitview creates is when you press -let's…
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How can I center a window with a keyboard shortcut?

I have gone into compizconfig's grid section and customized all the tiling commands. When I was testing the commands, I didn't see that any of them effectively centered the screen. I went into the window placement section and configured new windows…
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Maximized windows by default on Ubuntu 22.04 with Gnome?

I like to always see one maximized window at a time on my screen. It keeps me focused. How can I make all new windows be maximized by default, i.e without pressing the keyboard shortcut for maximize or using the mouse? On Ubuntu 20.04 I could use…
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Is there a program where I can embed other programs' windows?

I'm a developer and am often working on multiple different projects. It would help me a lot to have a software where I can create a profile for each project. If I start a profile it should open other programs I configured before and display them…
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Can Kwin be used in Unity?

Unity has a nice layout. I really do like the Ambiance and Radiance themes. However, I just feel that the window manager itself is lacking. KWin has an excellent tiling mode that automatically handles all my window needs without having to drag,…
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Do I need ubuntu-desktop if I'm using i3?

I've found that I like using i3-wm manager and now I never use GNOME, which is the base distro I have installed. I'm wondering if I want to do a fresh install and I know I want to use a tiling window manager, if I install Ubuntu-Server instead of…
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Tile and move window across displays with keyboard (Xubuntu)

I have two monitors: display L on the left, display R on the right. My current window is in the centre of L. I have configured the Super+Right shortcut to tile it to the right of L. That works fine. Now I'd like Super+Right to tile my window to the…
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Tiling manager with a GUI?

I have a ultra wide monitor running Ubuntu 22. I want a tiling layout manager - basically something with a GUI I can use to create a handful of layouts and be able to switch easily between them. I looked at i3, awesome, and bspwm but honestly that…
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How to change the area occupied by tiled windows from the default 50% of screen area?

The Quick Tile Window keyboard shortcut Super+Arrow left makes the window in focus occupy the left half of the screen. Super+Arrow right makes the focused window occupy the right half. By using these two shortcuts, two windows occupy space in a 1:1…
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