x tile X Tile

X-tile is a gnome applet for your panel (or optionally a standalone application)
that allows you to select a number of windows and tile them in different ways.

This is especially useful for comparing products in separate web pages,
or for programmers refering to documentation as they are programming.

The following languages are supported:
- english (default)
- chinese (Yan-ren Tsai, up to date)
- french (Mohamed Elmorabity, up to date)
- russian (Andriy Kovtun, up to date)
- italian (Giuseppe Penone, up to date)

instructions help
download download
add to gnome panel gnome
use without panel terminal

 

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help instructions :

after installation it is possible to add the applet to the gnome panel or to run the application
from applications--accessories--x-tile.
in addition to working with gnome, x-tile will also work with xfce4, just use the gnome applet wrapper (xfce4-xfapplet-plugin) that is part of the xfce applets. please note that when reinstalling or updating x-tile you will have to manually restart xfce4-panel (alternately just log out an back in again)

from the x-tile main window, after selecting two or more windows it is possible to:
- click tile windows vertically to tile them vertically
- click tile windows horizontally to tile them horizontally
- click x-tile to tile them triangle up
- click x-tile to tile them triangle down
- click x-tile to tile them triangle left
- click x-til to tile them triangle right
- click tile windows horizontally to quad tile them
- click maximize checked windows to maximize them
- click unmaximize checked windows to unmaximize them
- click close checked windows to close them

to set a blacklist of windows to never show click click the menu item file--filter
to reload the opened windows list click from the menu item file--reload
to edit the application preferences, click the menu item edit--preferences

in case of use as an applet it is furthermore possible, right clicking upon the applet icon,
to select a tiling option involving all opened windows without going through the x-tile main window.

TODO:
- better functionality with compiz running... actually we found that the option "only current workspace" sometimes doesn't work properly with compiz running
- better dual monitor handling
- tiling configurations with more than 4 windows involved

downloaddownload :

deb package debian package (for all pc architectures) : x-tile_1.3.2-1_all.deb
tar.gz archive source code : x-tile_1.3.2.tar.gz
NOTE: x-tile can be easily installed on any gnome or xfce system or by following the "manual-install.txt" guide
in the source archive

gnome add to the gnome panel :

right click upon a panel and select "add to panel...", then select "x tile"
from the list and click "add"

terminal use without the panel :

it is possible to:
1) use the menu item applications--accessories--x-tile
2) run x-tile from the terminal enterning x-tile --without-panel, x-tile --tile-all-vertically,.. (other commands below)
3) create keyboard shortcuts in system--preferences--keyboard shortcuts clicking "add"

keyboard shortcut

supply a name like x-tile and the commands should be:
x-tile --without-panel (x-tile main window)
x-tile --tile-all-vertically (skip main window, directly tile all opened windows vertically)
x-tile --tile-all-horizontally (skip main window, directly tile all opened windows horizontally)
x-tile --tile-all-triangle-up (skip main window, directly tile all opened windows horizontally)
x-tile --tile-all-triangle-down (skip main window, directly tile all opened windows horizontally)
x-tile --tile-all-triangle-left (skip main window, directly tile all opened windows horizontally)
x-tile --tile-all-triangle-right (skip main window, directly tile all opened windows horizontally)
x-tile --tile-all-quad (skip main window, directly quad tile all opened windows)
x-tile --maximize-all (skip main window, directly maximize all opened windows)
click "apply" and then assign the key combo of your choice.