tristan-c / snaptile

Versatile window tiling for X11 with powerful keyboard controls

Snaptile

Versatile, mouse-free window tiling for X11.

Grid System

The grid system divides your screen into 12 sections

ctl + alt +

Q	W	E	R
A	S	D	F
Z	X	C	V

You can snap your window to any rectangle, of any arbitrary size, on this grid by specifying 2 corners. For example:

ctl + alt + E + D

x	x	E	x
x	x	D	x
x	x	x	x

Which looks like

The two keys only needs to "span" a rectangle. For example:

ctl + alt + X + D

x	x	x	x
x	+	D	x
x	X	+	x

which looks like

Requirements

• Python3
• X11-based desktop
• python3-gi
• python3-xlib

Installation Guides

Install on Ubuntu

Go to a directory you want to store snaptile:

cd <place-you-want-to-store-snaptile>

Install and run:

sudo apt-get install git python3-gi python3-xlib
git clone https://github.com/jakebian/snaptile.git
cd snaptile && ./snaptile.py

Install on Arch / Manjaro

The snaptile-git arch linux packaged is created & maintained by @madnight.

Install and run:

yaourt snaptile-git
snaptile

Install on Fedora

Go to a directory you want to store snaptile:

cd <place-you-want-to-store-snaptile>

Install and run:

sudo dnf install git python3-gobject python3-xlib
git clone https://github.com/jakebian/snaptile.git
cd snaptile && ./snaptile.py

Start at boot

To start at boot, just add a script to Startup Applications invoking the python script

/usr/bin/python3 <full-path>/snaptile/snaptile.py

Credits

Snaptile is a rewrite of PyGrid, supporting the more powerful shortcuts system.