Smart Window Tiling for Gnome

Question

Over the summer, I had the opportunity to use a Macbook for my internship. Although I really did enjoy it, I missed the customization of Ubuntu. However, there was one app that I really missed, called Mosaic. It was a graphical interface to window tiling, where I can drag a window over an icon and its snaps to a respective position and size. Does anyone know of an alternative for Ubuntu, preferably Gnome?

Solution 1

Window Shuffler

Disclaimer: I am the author.

Natively on Ubuntu Budgie, but if you don't mind setting up manually, it should work on all window managers that support the dependencies (not wayland): WindowShuffler

It can be used both via GUI as well as via (basic) keyboard support.

• Download & instructions: https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/window-shuffler.
• Overview of its features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii4n8H4XEzc

Solution 2

I found Shell Tile to be a pretty good alternative for Gnome. However, it isn't as clean as Mosaic.

Solution 3

What about gTile? It's quite flexible to configure (supports a variety of customizable grid sizes) and supports multiple monitors. You bring the window you want to to apply tiling to focus and manage it through the dialog pop-up with keyboard shortcuts or with the mouse.

I only use Linux so I never heard of Mosaic, but it looks impressive, Shell Tile on the other hand did not look like what I wanted when I tried it. Should I give it another try?

Comments

[Csabi Vidó]

Looks neat. Will it support Wayland some day?

[Alex Tacescu]

This looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing this with us! For me, it isn't exactly what I am looking for. I wanted something that had preset locations, and I can drag a window over an icon and it would automatically snap that window to that location. However, I don't doubt that someone will find this very useful! Nice tool!

[Fabby]

Drop by in chat and remind me to award it in a couple of days...

[Jacob Vlijm]

@Fabby awesome!!

[Fabby]

@JacobVlijm I think you can figure this one out

[Fabby]

Congrats! You continue to amaze me! :-)

[Jacob Vlijm]

@Fabby you're the best, really :)

[Alex Tacescu]

A combination of gTile and Shell Tile would be fantastic...Maybe I will write something up!

[Florian Castellane]

shouldn't it work with XWayland?