..is a gnome-shell extension that adds smart and user-friendly tiling window features to your gnome desktop, inspired by bluetile. It's still young, but here's what it can do for you:



shellshape demo

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Try it Out

You can add this to your shell from the extensions.gnome.org page.

See the github project for information on running the latest development version.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Most shortcuts are the same as bluetile, except where functionality differs. Here's the full list:

Selecting layouts: win+d switch workspace to vertical tiled mode

win+f switch workspace to floating mode

win+g switch workspace to horizontal tiled mode

switch workspace to vertical tiled modeswitch workspace to floating modeswitch workspace to horizontal tiled mode Window navigation: win+j, win-tab select next window

win+k, win-shift-tab select prev window

win+space select main window

select next windowselect prev windowselect main window Window manipulation: win+shift+j swap with next window

win+shift+k swap with prev window

win+shift+space swap with main window

win+x minimize window

win+shift+x un-minimize last window

swap with next windowswap with prev windowswap with main windowminimize windowun-minimize last window Tile management: win+t tile the current window

win+y untile (yank) the current window

win+shift+p adjust tile boundaries to fit window

win+, more windows in the master area

win+. less windows in the master area

tile the current windowuntile (yank) the current windowadjust tile boundaries to fit windowmore windows in the master arealess windows in the master area Resizing tiles: win+h shrink master area

win+l grow master area

win+u shrink a slave area

win+i grow a slave area

shrink master areagrow master areashrink a slave areagrow a slave area Resizing windows: win+shift+h decrease window's width

win+shift+l increase window's width

win+shift+u decrease window's height

win+shift+i increase window's height

win+equal increase window's size

win+minus decrease window's size

win+z toggle window maximized state

decrease window's widthincrease window's widthdecrease window's heightincrease window's heightincrease window's sizedecrease window's sizetoggle window maximized state Workspace actions: win+alt+j go to workspace below

win+alt+k go to workspace above

win+alt+shift+j move window to workspace below

win+alt+shift+k move window to workspace above

go to workspace belowgo to workspace abovemove window to workspace belowmove window to workspace above

Of course, you can still use your mouse to move / resize windows as you normally would in gnome. If you move a tiled window over another tile, their positions will swap.

I also change the following shortcuts (in my keyboard shortcut preferences), as I find they fit shellshape's theme well:

win+shift+c close window

win+a bring window to front / send to back



Shortcut conflicts:

While all of these keyboard shortcuts were free at the time of Shellshape's creation, other software has since some of them for their own use. In some cases I've changed Shellshape's defaults to avoid clashes, but some shortcuts are too important to be pushed aside by rarely-used gnome functionality.

I suggest disabling or changing the following system shortcuts in gnome's keyboard settings:

win+space switch input source (if you do use multiple input sources, you may want to change shellshape's shortcut instead) win+shift+space switch input source backwards (see above) win+h minimize (shellshape duplicates this as win+x anyway) win+l lock screen (an important member of `hjkl` - rebind this to something else if you use it) win+tab switch applications (this is also bound to alt+tab, and rarely needed with shellshape) win+shift+tab switch applications backwards (as above)

Default shortcuts in older versions:

The following keyboard shortcuts have been changed to avoid clashes with shortcuts introduced in system software (sometimes agressively).

Changed in version 0.12 (June 2015):

win+p - place window (now win+t). Conflicted with gnome-settings-daemon's display switching.

win+d - vertical layout (now win+v). Conflicted with ubuntu's "show desktop" shortcut.

win+m - minimize (now win+x). Conflicted with gnome-shell's "message tray" shortcut.

win+shift+m - unminimize (now win+shift+x to match the minimize shortcut).



Get Involved

To get more information, help out or report a bug, please visit the github repository.

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