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Bug 740404 - More tiling options
More tiling options
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: mutter
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: mutter-maint
mutter-maint
: 662269 727711 749276 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-11-20 07:42 UTC by Iikku Mattila
Modified: 2021-07-05 13:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Iikku Mattila 2014-11-20 07:42:40 UTC 
Half-maximize / tiling to left and right is great, but there ought to be more options:
* tiling to top and bottom
* one third tiling
* tiling all visible windows
Comment 1 André Klapper 2014-11-20 17:01:18 UTC 
Please provide use cases for these options.
"ought to be" is not really an argument. :)
Comment 2 Iikku Mattila 2014-12-31 06:57:08 UTC 
top and bottom: displays in portrait mode. Current left/right tiling is useless here.

on third tiling: widescreen displays.

tiling all: well, this is more of an extra feature and a memory from the days of good old tiling window managers.
Comment 3 Fabio Marmiroli 2015-01-27 19:24:47 UTC 
While I would personally love this, it's probably safe to assume it's not mutter's job to provide a complex tiling wm functionality...
In fact there are already some extension that try to implement that, but ultimately fail because mutter's own tiling is "special", as tiled windows are put in a META_TILE_LEFT/META_TILE_RIGHT tiling_mode in which they are drawn borderless and the geometry is forced even for terminals

this is my proposal: how about adding a META_TILE_SHELL tiling_mode which can be set by shell extensions? this way all the tiling logic, grid shape and fancy stuff can be implemented directly by extensions!
Comment 4 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2015-02-09 23:34:56 UTC 
*** Bug 662269 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2015-02-09 23:35:23 UTC 
*** Bug 727711 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Florian Müllner 2015-05-14 23:17:56 UTC 
*** Bug 749276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 gschwind 2017-08-25 00:05:30 UTC 
Hello,

I think the following may be usefull : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786772

Basically, allowing plugin to turn windows as a tile where they want.

Best regards
Comment 8 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 13:52:36 UTC 
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