BLUETILE(1)
NAME
bluetile - full-featured tiling for the GNOME desktop environment
SYNOPSIS
bluetile [--help] [--version] [--restart]
DESCRIPTION
Bluetile is a tiling window manager designed to integrate with the
GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking
layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use
the entire screen without overlapping. Bluetile tries to make 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.
o Designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment
o Hybrid approach: Stacking window layout & tiling layouts available
o All features accessible from mouse, as well as keyboard
o Maximizing & minimizing windows in all layouts
o Good multihead support
o Proper handling of fullscreen applications
OVERVIEW
To quickly get up and running just start Bluetile from your current
window manager/desktop environment (preferably GNOME). Bluetile will
replace the currently running window manager (if the window manager
supports this) and start up.
- One way to set up Bluetile as your default window manager under GNOME
is to make sure that the environment variable WINDOW_MANAGER contains
the path to the Bluetile binary before GNOME starts. This can be achieved by putting something like the following line into ~/.gnomerc: - export WINDOW_MANAGER=bluetile
- If you use a packaged version of Bluetile, your distribution might already provide you with a preconfigured xsession.
OPTIONS
--help print help message
--version print the version number
--restart request a running Bluetile process to restart
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
- 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
CONFIGURATION
Edit the file ~/.bluetilerc to configure Bluetile.
AUTHOR
- Jan Vornberger <jan.vornberger@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>