How are my windows being tiled? And how can I modify it?

Amanda

3/20/23, 12:15 AM

I can use super➡️ to tile a window on the right half of the screen. (Left arrow to tile on the left, up arrow to maximize; down arrow to restore/unmax)

I thought I was running Compiz, but I disabled Grid in Compiz and my window tiling all still works, which I was not expecting. I think something else is overriding Compiz, but I don't know what it might be and I don't recall having set up an alternative tiling option.

I would really like to be able to tile windows in quarters of a screen as well, but I've been unsuccessful in setting the keyboard shortcut in Compiz that will do that.

According to the Compiz Settings Manager, controlalt] should place a window in the top right, but the key combination has no apparent effect on anything.

In researching my options I've read a few places that Compiz is incompatible with gnome-shell. I'm running a stock Ubuntu install, and gnome-shell --version returns GNOME Shell 3.36.9 so it seems possible that I'm running gnome shell and so Compiz isn't doing anything and I need an altogether different window tile manager?

I would love some help paving a path to tiling windows in quarter screen increments instead of just half screen increments. I am not sure which questions to ask to get there.

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vanadium

3/20/23, 1:32 PM

Gnome Shell only supports left and right tiling. Gnome Shell extensions can expand tiling capabilities. Wintile allows to half and quarter tile using Super+Arrow keys.

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