Topic: GNOME Tiling
For those of you that like tiling window managers and GNOME (very strange combo lol) I thought I thought you might be interested in this http://bluetile.org/
Last edited by xeNULL (2011-10-15 22:01:23)
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xeNULL wrote:
For those of you that like tiling window managers and GNOME (very strange combo lol) I thought I thought you might be interested in this http://bluetile.org/
That combination doesn't look strange at all, if you read the agenda: "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. " The sceencast in Bluetile frontpage and Jan's slides are the first human langauage presentation on tiling I've ever seen.
Using mouse clicks in panel for tiling feels heretic but it looks like an easy way to get used to quick window arrangements. (I trust in gateway drug theory.) Must give it a try, ahem, for personal educational purposes only.
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The bluetile + GNOME days might be over, as Mutter is woven deep into Gnome 3. I hope I'm wrong, bluetile is cool.
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nore wrote:
xeNULL wrote:For those of you that like tiling window managers and GNOME (very strange combo lol) I thought I thought you might be interested in this http://bluetile.org/
That combination doesn't look strange at all, if you read the agenda: "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. " The sceencast in Bluetile frontpage and Jan's slides are the first human langauage presentation on tiling I've ever seen.
Using mouse clicks in panel for tiling feels heretic but it looks like an easy way to get used to quick window arrangements. (I trust in gateway drug theory.) Must give it a try, ahem, for personal educational purposes only.
Yeah I get the meaning =] what I meant by strange combo was that a lot of people use a tiler for it non bulkiness where as GNOME is a bulky window manager. Though I hope this helps some people that do not feel up to awesome, xmonad, scrotwm etc.
Last edited by xeNULL (2011-10-17 15:23:01)
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In learning and getting used to new ideas the first step must not look like a giant leap for a newcomer. You just can't see the benefits of tiling before you've tried it. Most tiling WM:s are made by experts to experts and their documentations are written in geek. If you don't have patience to find out what it is about, it is not meant for you. That's why I take my hat off for Jan Vornberger and pals.
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Another tiling for gnome, but very old http://madewokherd.nfshost.com/luccawm/
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i tried bluetile once before it got absorbed mroe into the xmonad fold, and once after. both times, left me with the impression... "i'll just stick with xmonad, n keep it's advantages that bluetile spits on" [like extreme screen space maximisation].
not sure i ever recall using it with gnome though. certainly used to use xmonad with kde... for a while. n then learned it was cleaner n lighter just to use kicker with xmonad. back in the kde3 days of course.
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Digit wrote:
not sure i ever recall using it with gnome though. certainly used to use xmonad with kde... for a while. n then learned it was cleaner n lighter just to use kicker with xmonad. back in the kde3 days of course.
Kwin has a pretty nice tiling mode these days. It can be useful when you're doing a bunch of stuff. Real tiling, not the windows snap thing.
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Maybe I should once install a tiler on Xfce. Which one would be great as the Crunchers here are using so many different. I know we have a thread about the best tilers and some getting in to's but I may try it on Xfce as I do not use the compositing of Xfwm.
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^ There's also a Gtile extension. Look at extensions.gnome.org 
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There's also my small utility to tile windows using keybinds, it should work on gnome3 if it supports wnck, I don't know it does.
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -to-linux/
If anybody try this on gnome3 please give feedback.
At the moment bitbucket's repo is still up to date, but I don't know for how long as I moved the project to github instead:
https://github.com/plainas/azulejo