X Tile Changelog

What's new in X Tile 2.5.1

Nov 16, 2015
  • support for python 2.7.10 (fix from Raghavendra Talur)
  • bugfix: atom.io crashing x-tile

New in X Tile 1.9 (Jun 23, 2011)

  • implemented the "grid tiling": the screen can be tiled with a grid given the number of rows and columns

New in X Tile 1.8.6 (Mar 18, 2011)

  • Added Spanish-Argentina language

New in X Tile 1.8.4 (Dec 3, 2010)

  • fixed bug crashing x-tile
  • in case of dual monitor, now the windows that lay on the second monitor are grouped at the bottom of the list and have gray background
  • added the package x-tile-ng which has not gnome dependencies and works only without the applet

New in X Tile 1.8.3 (Nov 15, 2010)

  • fixed bug: some apps (like gvim) were not listed in x-tile and caused errors
  • the command line argument has been reduced to a single char, any not recognized argument will cause the help text to be displayed

New in X Tile 1.8.2 (Oct 27, 2010)

  • implemented the undo tiling feature, with a single click it is now possible to undo the latest tiling operation
  • added the Chinese simplified (thanks Khi-yuan)
  • the Japanese was removed as no maintainers are available anymore

New in X Tile 1.8 (Oct 4, 2010)

  • implemented a second custom tiling
  • fixed bugs
  • the French and Japanese languages are obsolete, if anybody can take the responsability to update and maintain those languages please contact us

New in X Tile 1.7.1 (Sep 22, 2010)

  • the process name (that was "python") is now "x-tile"
  • the option "only current workspace" works now also with windows managers that use the viewports (e.g. compiz)

New in X Tile 1.7 (Sep 8, 2010)

  • Implemented the custom tiling (the user can now define a tiling involving the number of windows he wants and positioning those windows where he wants)

New in X Tile 1.6.1 (Jul 21, 2010)

  • fixed bug
  • added japanese language (thanks Iwai, Kazutaka)

New in X Tile 1.6 (Jul 14, 2010)

  • significant improvement in the precision of the tilings, the overlaps adjustments were removed as no longer necessary
  • added a whitelist of windows that, when listed, are flagged by default
  • improved the retrieval of the window process name in case of Python script

New in X Tile 1.5.3 (Jul 7, 2010)

  • added the preferences option “ignore the minimized windows” (thanks Matthew)
  • added a filter to not list the sticky windows
  • fixed a bug involving the internationalization
  • fixed a bug in the debian package for users not using gnome (thanks Stephen)

New in X Tile 1.5.2 (Jun 10, 2010)

  • Bug fixed (thanks Yuwen)

New in X Tile 1.5.1 (Jun 6, 2010)

  • Added the german language (thanks Jöran)

New in X Tile 1.5 (May 31, 2010)

  • implemented the automatic detection of a second monitor, in this case a second column of checkboxes will appear and it will be possible to tile on either monitor 1 or 2. The automatically detected monitor area can be overridden from the preferences window (thanks Taras)
  • added in the preferences window two parameters to control the windows overlapping (which is due to the windows framing)
  • added the option to select a custom language for the application in the preferences window
  • fixed many bugs

New in X Tile 1.4 (Apr 7, 2010)

  • added a second custom tiling area. the switching between tiling areas can be done using keyboard shortcuts, as you can see from the x-tile "file" menu. we are moving toward a better dual monitor support (thanks Taras)
  • menus and toolbar were completely rewritten adopting the gtk ui manager. since now the keyboard shortcuts should be keyboard layout independent
  • removed the dependence from the package python-psutil

New in X Tile 1.3.2 (Mar 7, 2010)

  • added four tiling options called triangle up, down, left, right which involve three windows (thanks Andrzej)
  • added the russian language (thanks Andriy)
  • The following languages are supported:
  • English (default)
  • Chinese (Yan-ren Tsai, up to date)
  • French (Mohamed Elmorabity, to be updated)
  • Russian (Andriy Kovtun, up to date)
  • Italian (Giuseppe Penone, up to date)

New in X Tile 1.3.1 (Feb 21, 2010)

  • fixed a bug: blender crashed the application
  • added the options "maximize all" and "quad tile all" to the panel applet menu/command line (thanks Nuno)
  • internationalized the application and added the first two languages: italian and french. if anybody would like x-tile in their language, contact us and we'll send the document with the sentences to translate (it takes no more than 30 mins to translate it)

New in X Tile 1.3 (Jan 8, 2010)

  • added a blacklist filter where it's possible to insert windows that we never want to be shown in the list (added the dependency from the module python-psutil)
  • enabled the control of the toolbar icons size through menu item "view"
  • fixed bug: sometimes the x-tile window position failed to be restored
  • fixed bug: exit after tile did not work in quad tile

New in X Tile 1.2.5 (Dec 1, 2009)

  • fixed bugs
  • removed the dependence from the old libglade, the new gtkbuilder is now used

New in X Tile 1.2.4 (Oct 14, 2009)

  • added the option to tile all opened windows vertically/horizontally directly right-clicking upon the panel icon, skipping the x-tile main window (thanks to Jose Antonio for the feedback)
  • added in the configuration window the possibility to disable the warning dialogs

New in X Tile 1.2.2 (Oct 7, 2009)

  • bugs fixed

New in X Tile 1.2.0 (Sep 25, 2009)

  • added the filter "only windows from the current workspace" (thanks to Juan for the feedback)
  • added the memory of the main window last position and size
  • modified the configuration window
  • enabled the hiding of the sorting buttons (the drag n drop can be used too for sorting)
  • added a menu item to run the application without using the gnome panel

New in X Tile 1.1.0 (Sep 13, 2009)

  • implemented the option to change the order of the tiled windows (Thanks to Juan for the feedback)
  • implemented the option to customize the tiling area (Thanks to Marc for the feedback)

New in X Tile 1.0.5 (Sep 10, 2009)

  • due to the requests about how to run x-tile being independent from the panel, we made this possible as described in the application webpage;
  • implemented the quad-tiling (four windows in the four screen's corners).

New in X Tile 1.0.4 (Sep 3, 2009)

  • clicking the applet icon now toggles the applet on *and* off
  • the shortcut (Ctrl+A) now selects all windows in list, (Ctrl+Shift+A) deselects all;
  • added keyboard shortcuts for the main X Tile functions.

New in X Tile 1.0.3 (Aug 31, 2009)

  • The X Tile windows list shows its own window after a refresh
  • When there are only two windows, they are not selected by default
  • Added help documentation

New in X Tile 1.0.2 (Aug 23, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • some applications (such as blender and conky) crashed x-tile - FIXED
  • closing the applet through the top right cross (or Alt+F4) caused x-tile window to stop working properly - FIXED

New in X Tile 1.0.1 (Aug 23, 2009)

  • bugfix release