Bluetile For Linux

Bluetile is a tiling window manager for X, based on the xmonad project. 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.

Bluetile started as a university project and topic of my thesis (you can find slides of my talks and the thesis online, but only in German). It now continues as an open source project. See the wiki for more background on the motivation behind Bluetile and its relationship to xmonad.

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