Versatile, mouse-free window tiling for X11.

The grid system divides your screen into 12 sections

ctl + alt +

You can snap your window to any rectangle, of any arbitrary size, on this grid by specifying 2 corners. For example:

ctl + alt + E + D

Which looks like

The two keys only needs to "span" a rectangle. For example:

ctl + alt + X + D

which looks like

• Python3
• X11-based desktop
• python3-gi
• python3-xlib

Go to a directory you want to store snaptile:

cd <place-you-want-to-store-snaptile>

Install and run:

sudo apt-get install git python3-gi python3-xlib
git clone https://github.com/jakebian/snaptile.git
cd snaptile && ./snaptile.py

Go to a directory you want to store snaptile:

cd <place-you-want-to-store-snaptile>

Install and run:

sudo pacman -S git python-gobject python-xlib
git clone https://github.com/jakebian/snaptile.git
cd snaptile && ./snaptile.py

To start at boot, just add a script to Startup Applications invoking the python script

/usr/bin/python3 <full-path>/snaptile/snaptile.py

Snaptile is a rewrite of PyGrid, supporting the more powerful shortcuts system.