Add Tiling to Your Desktop
  • rfry85rfry85
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    Need to tile windows every now and then? You can accomplish this with X-tile. X tile is available in the Debian repos, but for some reason not in ubuntu's. The easist thing is to down load it from here. Make sure you have the dependencies installed too. Use gdebi or apt to install it. Now create a desktop icon. ...

    gedit /.local/share/applications/xtile-launcher.desktop


    copy and paste this into it...

     [Desktop Entry]
    Name=Tile Windows
    Exec=x-tile g 0 0
    Icon=/usr/share/icons/MaXo-ReMix/actions/zoom-fit-best.png
    Type=Application
    Categories=GTK;GNOME;Utility;

    change the Icon=   to reflect your icon of choice (the above probably won't work on your system)

    Save and close. Then just go to your lxpanel and add a launcher and edit it to include "Tile Windows" 


    Move it wherever you want on your panel, mine sets next to the menu.

    Now when ever you have a bunch of windows opened on your desktop just click on the new launcher and they woill be tiled for you.

    For more options, in a terminal run...

    x-tile --help

    If you want something different, then in the exec=   line, just change g 0 0  to whatever you want.

    Thanked by 1lepa22
  • lxlelxle
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    nice, been looking at testing this myself... what the g 0 0 define?
  • rfry85rfry85
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    Tile all windows in a grid with automatic columns and rows.
  • lxlelxle
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    Is there a return code?
  • rfry85rfry85
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    Not sure what your asking?
  • lxlelxle
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    let say you tile you windows and then you find the window you want. you select it, is there then a command to send the windows back to the original position before tiling
  • rfry85rfry85
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    x-tile z
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