Tiling Shell v15.0 | Automatically tile new windows and more!

[domferr]

• New: Finally, automatic tiling! When a window is created, it is automatically moved to the best tile according to where other windows are tiled and the current layout. The setting can be enabled/disabled from the extension's preferences (disabled by default). It follows the currently selected layout to pick the best tile for newly created windows. The best tile is the vacant tile nearest to the center of the screen. Closes [Feature Request] Automatically tile newly created windows #169

autotiling.mp4

• Fix: improved user experience of keybindings. Closes Untile Hotkey Fails After Tiling, Untiling, and Re-Tiling Window #180 and Use keybinding to move to new tile at same edge after switching layout #159

How to install

⭐ This update of Tiling Shell is landing on GSE too!

Manual installation

There are two builds and you need only one of them, according to your GNOME Shell version:

• For GNOME Shell versions 45, 46 and 47: tilingshell@ferrarodomenico.com.zip
• For GNOME Shell versions from 42 to 44: GNOME.42-44.tilingshell@ferrarodomenico.com.zip

To know your GNOME Shell version, run gnome-shell --version.

Extract the downloaded archive. Copy its content to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/tilingshell@ferrarodomenico.com directory. You need to reload GNOME Shell afterwards (e.g. by logging out). Then you can enable the extension:

/usr/bin/gnome-extensions enable tilingshell@ferrarodomenico.com

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This discussion was created from the release Tiling Shell v15.0 | Automatically tile new windows and more!.

[mpstaton]

Hey @domferr this GNOME extension was exactly what I was looking for. It took me like 2 days to find you! I was busy trying to get AwesomeWM working and it unfortunately is a whole other GUI. But I finally found this after much frustration! If I get some time (unlikely), I would love to help!!!!

Thanks a lot for this great work! Hope you keep at it (or it gets integrated or something).... Whatever a good trajectory is for you!

[mpstaton]

I definitely wish installing things was easier for GNOME. (I didn't want to download Chrome again...)

[mpstaton]

Also @domferr do you have a "feature requests" kind of forum? I don't want to open an issue because right now it's perfect for me. But of course Keyboard Shortcuts and hotkeys or numbers for tiles would be clutch!

[domferr]

Hey thank you for the kind words! I'm so happy you are enjoying it! There are some new features coming soon, stay tuned. Feel free to open a new issue here on GitHub for any feature request or bug!