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6 bluetile - full-featured tiling for the GNOME desktop environment
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9 bluetile [--help] [--version] [--restart]
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12 Bluetile is a tiling window manager designed to integrate with the
13 GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking
14 layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use
15 the entire screen without overlapping. Bluetile tries to make the
16 tiling paradigm easily accessible to users coming from traditional
17 window managers by drawing on known conventions and providing both
18 mouse and keyboard access for all features.
19 · Designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment
21 · Hybrid approach: Stacking window layout & tiling layouts available
23 · All features accessible from mouse, as well as keyboard
25 · Maximizing & minimizing windows in all layouts
27 · Good multihead support
29 · Proper handling of fullscreen applications
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33 To quickly get up and running just start Bluetile from your current
34 window manager/desktop environment (preferably GNOME). Bluetile will
35 replace the currently running window manager (if the window manager
36 supports this) and start up.
37 One way to set up Bluetile as your default window manager under GNOME
39 is to make sure that the environment variable WINDOW_MANAGER contains
40 the path to the Bluetile binary before GNOME starts. This can be
41 achieved by putting something like the following line into ~/.gnomerc:
42 export WINDOW_MANAGER=bluetile
44 If you use a packaged version of Bluetile, your distribution might
46 already provide you with a preconfigured xsession.
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49 --help print help message
50 --version print the version number
52 --restart request a running Bluetile process to restart
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56 This is a list of most keyboard shortcuts for Bluetile:
57 Win+Return Launch terminal
59 Win+p Launch GNOME "Run application" dialog
60 Win+a Switch to stacking window layout
62 Win+s Switch to tiled horizontal layout
63 Win+d Switch to tiled vertical layout
64 Win+f Switch to fullscreen layout
65 Win+j Move focus to the next window
67 Win+k Move focus to the previous window
68 Win+Space Move focus to the master window
69 Win+Shift+j Swap the focused window with the next window
70 Win+Shift+k Swap the focused window with the previous window
71 Win+Shift+Space Swap the focused window with the master window
72 Win+h Shrink the master area
74 Win+l Expand the master area
75 Win+u Shrink a slave area
76 Win+i Expand a slave area
77 Win+, Increment the number of windows in the master area
78 Win+. Decrement the number of windows in the master area
79 Win+Shift+c Close the focused window
81 Win+z Maximize/zoom focused window
82 Win+m Minimize focused window
83 Win+Shift+m Restore next minimized window
84 Win+o Show window menu for focused window
85 Win+t Push dialog window back into tiling
86 Win+1 .. Win+9, Win+0
88 Switch to workspace N
89 Win+Shift+1 .. Win+Shift+9, Win+Shift+0
91 Move client to workspace N
92 Win+w, Win+e, Win+r
94 Switch to physical/Xinerama screens 1, 2 or 3
95 Win+Shift+w, Win+Shift+e, Win+Shift+r
97 Move client to physical/Xinerama screen 1, 2 or 3
98 Win+F5 Refresh layout
100 Win+Shift+q Quit Bluetile
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103 Edit the file ~/.bluetilerc to configure Bluetile.
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106 Jan Vornberger <jan.vornberger@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
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