Over the summer, I had the opportunity to use a Macbook for my internship. Although I really did enjoy it, I missed the customization of Ubuntu. However, there was one app that I really missed, called Mosaic. It was a graphical interface to window tiling, where I can drag a window over an icon and its snaps to a respective position and size. Does anyone know of an alternative for Ubuntu, preferably Gnome?
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Window Shuffler
Disclaimer: I am the author.
Natively on Ubuntu Budgie, but if you don't mind setting up manually, it should work on all window managers that support the dependencies (not wayland): WindowShuffler
It can be used both via GUI as well as via (basic) keyboard support.
- Download & instructions: https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/window-shuffler.
- Overview of its features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii4n8H4XEzc
Jacob Vlijm
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2Looks neat. Will it support Wayland some day? – LiveWireBT Nov 06 '18 at 22:28
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1This looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing this with us! For me, it isn't exactly what I am looking for. I wanted something that had preset locations, and I can drag a window over an icon and it would automatically snap that window to that location. However, I don't doubt that someone will find this very useful! Nice tool! – Alex Tacescu Nov 06 '18 at 23:00
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Drop by in chat and remind me to award it in a couple of days... – Fabby Nov 20 '18 at 22:30
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@Fabby awesome!! – Jacob Vlijm Nov 21 '18 at 15:48
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@JacobVlijm I think you can figure this one out – Fabby Nov 22 '18 at 09:02
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Congrats! You continue to amaze me! :-) – Fabby Nov 25 '18 at 15:30
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1@Fabby you're the best, really :) – Jacob Vlijm Nov 25 '18 at 16:03
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shouldn't it work with XWayland? – Florian Castellane Oct 02 '19 at 07:47
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I would love to have this on a standard Ubuntu! – Andrejs Cainikovs Dec 06 '22 at 13:04
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I found Shell Tile to be a pretty good alternative for Gnome. However, it isn't as clean as Mosaic.
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What about gTile? It's quite flexible to configure (supports a variety of customizable grid sizes) and supports multiple monitors. You bring the window you want to to apply tiling to focus and manage it through the dialog pop-up with keyboard shortcuts or with the mouse.
I only use Linux so I never heard of Mosaic, but it looks impressive, Shell Tile on the other hand did not look like what I wanted when I tried it. Should I give it another try?
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A combination of gTile and Shell Tile would be fantastic...Maybe I will write something up! – Alex Tacescu May 06 '19 at 18:46