Xfwm4 window tiling?

[mwarrens]

All,

Can anyone recommend a tiling app that is compatible with Xfwm4?

Thanks,

Mike Warren

[LL-user]

Hi Mike,

Sorry, I don't have a ready to go solution to recommend.

Am happy to share my notes though, I took about this topic some time ago, in the hope it will at least be a good starting point for you, maybe even the solution you've been looking for.

Hope that helps 



===== built in features =====
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63148#p63148
Xfce supports a similar type of window tiling. **To enable** it, make sure that ''Settings Manager > Window Manager Tweaks > Accessibility tab > Automatically tile windows...'' is selected.

**To set keyboard shortcuts**, go to ''Settings Manager > Window Manager > Keyboard'' tab, and set the desired keyboard shortcuts for the "Tile window to the ..." events.

https://uli.rocks/p/tilling-xfce/

Open "Window Manager" in settings (''xfce4-settings-editor'' to be precise), then setup keybindings.

My keybindings are (note: super means windows key on most keyboards):
* ''super+[up|down|left|right]''  to tile windows
* ''super+m''  to maximize the active window
* ''super+f''  to fullscreen the active window
* ''super+q''  to close the active window (rebound alt-F4)
* ''super+[number]''  to go to workspace  ''[number]'',
* ''shift+super+[number]''  to move the active window to workspace  ''[number]''

If you want to download my bindings see them  [[https://github.com/UlisseMini/dotfiles/b...uts.xml|on github]]. To use them make sure  ''xconfd''  isn't running (''pkill xconfd'') then replace your  ''~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml''  file with mine (same goes for backing up your config).


===== X-tile =====
https://www.giuspen.net/x-tile/
https://launchpad.net/~giuspen/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
https://github.com/giuspen/x-tile

-> arbitrary grid not working under LL4

===== zentile =====
https://github.com/blrsn/zentile
On-demand tiling

===== Xutiles =====
https://github.com/edison23/xutiles
A windows tiling helper for X

[mwarrens]

All,

Can anyone recommend a tiling app that is compatible with Xfwm4?

Thanks,

Mike Warren

Thanks for the reply and the tiling information. I will play with this; it look like the xfce tiling will be sufficient for my needs. Thanks again!