Oz Nahum – January 11, 2014
Quick Tip - Tiling Windows manager in Mate-Desktop
X-Tile is a Desktop Environment agnostic program written in Python which reorganises your open Windows in different aragenments like DWM or other Tiling Windows Manager. It's advantage is that you can enjoy all the benefits of using your familiar Desktop, plus you get keyboard shortcuts to quickly rearage your windows around. X-Tile is found in the Debian repositoris so you can quickly install it with:
$ aptitude install x-tile
Now, you can quickly add keyboard shortcuts running the following script:
#!/bin/bash
# x-tile_mate_keybindings
# quickly setup bindings for x-tile in mate, tiling window
# management with a nice DE!
# Thanks for mate developers Issue #45 in mate-control-center
# is now closed and this is possible again
# this script assumes you have dconf-cli installed
cat << EOF > keys
[custom6]
action='x-tile q'
binding='<Primary><Alt>q'
name='tile quad'
[custom2]
action='x-tile v'
binding='<Alt><Mod4>k'
name='tile vertical'
[custom5]
action='x-tile l'
binding='<Alt><Mod4>l'
name='tile right'
[custom1]
action='x-tile z'
binding='<Primary><Alt>z'
name='undo tile'
[custom4]
action='x-tile l'
binding='<Alt><Mod4>h'
name='tile left'
[custom0]
action='x-tile u'
binding='<Primary><Alt>u'
name='tile up'
[custom3]
action='x-tile d'
binding='<Alt><Mod4>j'
name='tile down'
[custom7]
action='x-tile l'
binding='<Alt><Mod4>3'
name='tile right 3'
EOF
dconf load /org/mate/desktop/keybindings/ < keys
rm keys
That's all. You can download this script here.
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