Overview
Bluetile is a tiling window manager for X based on xmonad. 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.
- 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
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Download
Bluetile is available through the
HackageDB. The current
version is 0.3. You need
Cabal to install the
packages:
If you get a message about unsatisfied dependencies "gtk" and "glade", you will
need to install Gtk2Hs. Your distribution might include packages for it, otherwise
you can get it from http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/.
If you install as a normal user, Cabal will put the binaries into the
directory ~/.cabal/bin by default. Add this directory to your PATH or
run the command as given below. Preferably you should start Bluetile
from a terminal under GNOME + Metacity. Bluetile will replace the currently
running window manager (if the window manager supports this) and start up.
Documentation
This is a list of most keyboard shortcuts for Bluetile:
| Win+Return | Launch terminal |
| Win+p | Launch GNOME "Run application" dialog |
| Win+a | Switch to stacking window layout |
| Win+s | Switch to tiled horizontal layout |
| Win+d | Switch to tiled vertical layout |
| Win+f | Switch to fullscreen layout |
| Win+j | Move focus to the next window |
| Win+k | Move focus to the previous window |
| Win+Space | Move focus to the master window |
| Win+Shift+j | Swap the focused window with the next window |
| Win+Shift+k | Swap the focused window with the previous window |
| Win+Shift+Space | Swap the focused window with the master window |
| Win+h | Shrink the master area |
| Win+l | Expand the master area |
| Win+u | Shrink a slave area |
| Win+i | Expand a slave area |
| Win+, | Increment the number of windows in the master area |
| Win+. | Decrement the number of windows in the master area |
| Win+Shift+c | Close the focused window |
| Win+z | Maximize/zoom focused window |
| Win+m | Minimize focused window |
| Win+Shift+m | Restore next minimized window |
| Win+o | Show window menu for focused window |
| Win+t | Push dialog window back into tiling |
| Win+1 .. Win+9, Win+0 | Switch to workspace N |
| Win+Shift+1 .. Win+Shift+9, Win+Shift+0 | Move client to workspace N |
| Win+w, Win+e, Win+r | Switch to physical/Xinerama screens 1, 2 or 3 |
| Win+Shift+w, Win+Shift+e, Win+Shift+r | Move client to physical/Xinerama screen 1, 2 or 3 |
| Win+F5 | Refresh layout |
| Win+Shift+q | Quit Bluetile |
The full list of keyboard shortcuts is currently only documented in the source code (see Config.hs of Bluetile). Also, there is currently no way to change the keyboard shortcuts expect by modifying the source code. A user-friendly configuration system that is more in line with Bluetile's goals is planned.
Development
Bluetile's repositories are located at
http://code.haskell.org/bluetile/.