Forge is a GNOME Shell extension that provides tiling/window management.
- Tree-based tiling with vertical and horizontal split containers similar to i3-wm
- Vim-like keybindings for navigation/swapping windows/moving windows in the containers
- Drag and drop tiling
- Support for floating windows, smart gaps and focus hint
- Customizable shortcuts in extension preferences
- Some support for multi-display
- Tiling support per workspace
- Update hint color scheme from Preferences
- Stacked tiling layout
- Works on GNOME 3.36+ (feature-freeze) and 40. X11 and Wayland
- Swap current window with the last active window
- Auto Split or Quarter Tiling
- Show/hide tab decoration via keybinding forge-ext#180
- Window resize using keyboard shortcuts
- Extensions GNOME site: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4481/forge/
- Download/clone the source and
make install, restart gnome-shell after ormake dev. - AUR Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-extension-forge - thanks to @Radeox
- Fedora Package: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/gnome-shell-extension-forge/gnome-shell-extension-forge/ - thanks to @carlwgeorge
See the acceptable key combinations on the wiki
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Increase active window size left | <Ctrl> + <Super> + y |
| Decrease active window size left | <Ctrl> + <Shift> + <Super> + o |
| Increase active window size bottom | <Ctrl> + <Super> + u |
| Decrease active window size bottom | <Ctrl> + <Shift> + <Super> + i |
| Increase active window size top | <Ctrl> + <Super> + i |
| Decrease active window size top | <Ctrl> + <Shift> + <Super> + u |
| Increase active window size right | <Ctrl> + <Super> + o |
| Decrease active window size right | <Ctrl> + <Shift> + <Super> + y |
| Open preferences | <Super> + period |
| Toggle tiling mode | <Super> + w |
| Focus left | <Super> + h |
| Focus right | <Super> + l |
| Focus up | <Super> + k |
| Focus down | <Super> + j |
| Swap current window with last active | <Super> + Return |
| Swap active window left | <Ctrl> + <Super> + h |
| Swap active window right | <Ctrl> + <Super> + l |
| Swap active window up | <Ctrl> + <Super> + k |
| Swap active window down | <Ctrl> + <Super> + j |
| Move active window left | <Shift> + <Super> + h |
| Move active window right | <Shift> + <Super> + l |
| Move active window up | <Shift> + <Super> + k |
| Move active window down | <Shift> + <Super> + j |
| Split container horizontally | <Super> + z |
| Split container vertically | <Super> + v |
| Toggle split container | <Super> + g |
| Gap increase | <Ctrl> + <Super> + Plus |
| Gap decrease | <Ctrl> + <Super> + Minus |
| Toggle focus hint | <Super> + x |
| Toggle active workspace tiling | <Shift> + <Super> + w |
| Toggle stacked layout | <Shift> + <Super> + s |
| Toggle tabbed layout | <Shift> + <Super> + t |
| Show/hide tab decoration | <Ctrl> + <Alt> + y |
| Activate tile drag-drop | Start dragging - Mod key configuration in prefs |
| Snap active window left two thirds | <Ctrl> + <Alt> + e |
| Snap active window right two thirds | <Ctrl> + <Alt> + t |
| Snap active window left third | <Ctrl> + <Alt> + d |
| Snap active window right third | <Ctrl> + <Alt> + g |
| Persist toggle floating for active window | <Super> + c |
| Persist toggle floating for active window and its window class | <Super><Shift> + c |
For any shortcut conflicts, the user has to manually configure those for now from the
GNOME Control Center > Keyboard > Customize Shortcuts. forge-ext#37
- Window Overrides:
$HOME/.config/forge/config/windows.json - Stylesheet Overrides:
$HOME/.config/forge/stylesheet/forge/stylesheet.css
GNOME Shell has built in support for workspace management and seems to work well - so Forge will not touch those.
User is encouraged to bind the following:
- Switching/moving windows to different workspaces
- Switching to numbered, previous or next workspace
- The
mainbranch contains gnome-4x code. - The
legacyandgnome-3-36are the same and is now the source for gnome-3x.
- Install NodeJS 16+
- Install
gettext - Run
npm install - Commands:
# Compile and override the gnome-shell update repo
make dev
# Or run below, and restart the shell manually
make build && make debug && make install
# X11 - build from source and restarts gnome-shell
make test-x
# Wayland - build from source and starts a wayland instance (no restart)
make test-wayland
# Formatting, when you do npm install,
# husky gets installed should force prettier formatting during commit
npm run format- Please be nice, friendly and welcoming on discussions/tickets.
- See existing issues or file a new ticket with title
bug: short descriptionif it doesn't exist.
Thank you to:
- Forge extension contributors
- Michael Stapelberg/contributors for i3
- System76/contributors for pop-shell
- ReworkCSS/contributors for css-parse/css-stringify