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Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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Re: Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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This is amazing, I just ran it and it works perfectly for my needs!

For context, I recently switched to the KDE window manager (KWin) after a decade of xmonad, to simplify my configuration. KWin supports some tiling but isn't really built for it, so I had some minor annoyances. I ran cortile and it perfectly auto-tiled my windows and allows me to still adjust the sizes with the mouse!

Thank you to the author!

I'd say some default shortcuts conflict with commonly used browser shortcuts, namely ctrl-shift-t and ctrl-shift-r . It's quite easy to configure these, but I found it to be a strange choice for default shortcuts.

Re: Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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Kudos for this, what's your pitch for i3 users?

It adds tiling to floating window managers like openbox, xfwm, and kwin, giving tiling to more mainstream desktop environments like GNOME, XFCE, and KDE. It's not really made for i3 users I think.

I guess the advantage over i3 would be that those desktop environments have better integration with certain apps and a coherent look and feel. For example, on Ubuntu, which uses a modified GNOME, you can add tiling while still enjoying stuff like the volume control widget, gnome-control-center, consistent file open dialogs, and so on.

Re: Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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Kudos for this, what's your pitch for i3 users?

I'm curious about this too. You'll have to pry i3 away from my cold dead hands.

Stick with i3!

For anyone who wants i3 but doesn't want to configure it, the only other option I know of was regolith:

https://regolith-desktop.com/ or https://regolith-linux.org/

This looks like a nice fit for my xfwm machine and I'm excited to try it.

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