![]() ![]() ![]() Windows (!) offers a better, more intuitive window tiling experience than Ubuntu does at present, and even the no-frill Chrome OS is in on the action. Is More Window Tiling Necessary? Window snapping options in Tiling AssistantĪre additional window snapping options something Ubuntu should offer? Options to assign/enable keybindings for snapping windows in quadrants, etc are also provided by the extension, with window tiling able to be managed entirely through a keyboard as well as a mouse (though it remains to be seen if Ubuntu would enable these features by default and/or expose them in the Ubuntu Desktop settings panel. Tiling Assistant in action on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Or to put it another way: this extension provides the proper modern window tiling experience users expect, with support for quarter tiling, horizontal half-tiling, and super-simple resizing of tiled groups: The add-on “…changes GNOME’s 2 column tiling design to a 2×2 grid (i.e. Those options (and more) are provided by Tiling Assistant. You can’t currently drag an app to a screen corner to snap it to 25%, nor drag a window to the top to snap it to only 50% of the available horizontal space. In recent versions of Ubuntu you can drag an app window to the sides of the screen to snap it to to half of the size vertically, or drag a window to the top of the screen to maximise it fully. As part of the process the extension is going to be renamed ‘Ubuntu Tiling Assistant’. I’m told that there are plans to ship Leleat’s Tiling Assistant GNOME Shell extension as part of the default install in either Ubuntu 23.04 or Ubuntu 23.10. Word on the street (or rather a tip to my inbox) suggest yes, they are! Are Ubuntu devs finally going to something about the Ubuntu desktop’s rather lacklustre window tiling capabilities?
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