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Tiling Window Managers pt.2: Bluetile

July 21st, 2010 by adam

(This is part 2 in a series on tiling window managers.)

What is Bluetile?

From the website:

Bluetile is a tiling window manager designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping. Bluetile tries to make 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.

In a nutshell, Bluetile is supposed to be the easy way into the tiling window managers paradigm. Does it succeed? Let’s find out.

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Tiling Window Managers, pt. 1: Intro

July 7th, 2010 by adam

(This is the first in a series on tiling window managers.)

Ever wish your programs all started maximized? That the computer handled resizing things so you didn’t have to dig around for that tiny resize corner with the mouse? That you could make better use of your screen real estate than wasting it on window borders and decorations? Wish you could have multiple windows side by side without having to resize and position them by hand?

Tiling window managers are the solution.

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