Bluetile A modern tiling window manager with a gentle learning curve
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A modern tiling window manager with a gentle learning curve Bluetile is a tiling window manager for X, based on the xmonad project. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use. Bluetile's focus lies on making 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. It also tries to be usable 'out of the box', requiring minimal to no configuration in most cases.Bluetile started as a university project and topic of my thesis (you can find slides of my talks and the thesis online, but only in German). It now continues as an open source project. See the wiki for more background on the motivation behind Bluetile and its relationship to xmonad.This is a list of most keyboard shortcuts for Bluetile:Win+Return Launch terminalWin+p Launch GNOME "Run application" dialog Win+a Switch to stacking window layoutWin+s Switch to tiled horizontal layoutWin+d Switch to tiled vertical layoutWin+f Switch to fullscreen layout Win+j Move focus to the next windowWin+k Move focus to the previous windowWin+Space Move focus to the master windowWin+Shift+j Swap the focused window with the next windowWin+Shift+k Swap the focused window with the previous windowWin+Shift+Space Swap the focused window with the master window Win+h Shrink the master areaWin+l Expand the master areaWin+u Shrink a slave areaWin+i Expand a slave areaWin+, Increment the number of windows in the master areaWin+. Decrement the number of windows in the master area Win+Shift+c Close the focused windowWin+z Maximize/zoom focused windowWin+m Minimize focused windowWin+Shift+m Restore next minimized windowWin+o Show window menu for focused windowWin+t Push dialog window back into tiling Win+1 .. Win+9, Win+0 Switch to workspace NWin+Shift+1 .. Win+Shift+9, Win+Shift+0 Move client to workspace NWin+w, Win+e, Win+r Switch to physical/Xinerama screens 1, 2 or 3Win+Shift+w, Win+Shift+e, Win+Shift+r Move client to physical/Xinerama screen 1, 2 or 3 Win+F5 Refresh layoutWin+Shift+q Quit Bluetile Here are some key features of "Bluetile": · Hybrid approach: Stacking window layout & tiling layouts available · Maximizing & minimizing windows in all layouts · All features accessible from mouse, as well as keyboard · Good multihead support · Designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment Requirements: · Cabal

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