Hey guys, I’ve been running Mint on my home computer for a little while now and I’m having a great time, however there’s one behaviour from Windows I’m missing. When you hit win + arrows to snap the currently focussed window to the left or right half of the screen, windows will present a dialogue to select a companion window for the other half of the screen from your other floating windows. Does anyone know how best to implement something like this? I tried a tiling WM like i3, but that’s a bit more… involved than what I’m looking for. Thanks!
If you use the default cinnamon desktop on linux mint, theres an extension for it called gTile.
https://github.com/shuairan/gTile
Not sure if it does what you want.
TBH I’ve always found the popup showing all the other windows when tiling in Windows to be annoying so I’ve never looked for it on Linux.
I’ve got this now, looks pretty cool, thanks! Gonna keep looking over the documentation, but I can’t quite see the particular behaviour I’m looking for. It has the snapping (and better options than Win10), but I want to be presented with the list of other available windows for snapping on the other side.
It doesn’t target Gnome, it targets Cinnamon - and I don’t think they share the same API.
Probably not what you’re looking for but this behavior works very well on KDE Plasma.
I’m not tied to anything at this stage, but I don’t have a lot of free time for trying different stuff. Can I install this DE alongside cinnamon, like I have with i3?
Idk maybe this? Tiling wm plugin for gnome shell (which is the UI) https://gitlab.com/lundal/tactile
They are on Cinnamon so something like gTile or another native Cinnamon tiling extension would be best
You should try out KDE in a Live CD. The snapping and tiling features work very well, Windows needs to catch up
Don’t recommend a totally separate DE for something trivial
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