X-TILE(1)

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version 3.3+git20220708.9ec59c9 · 2 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 X-TILE(1) — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because today we're talking about X-Tile, an application that lets you select a number of windows and tile them in different ways. yes. that X-Tile. the one that makes your chaotic desktop look like it has its life together. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

x-tile [option]

one command, infinite vibes. let's go.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: X-Tile works on any X desktop — gnome, kde, xfce, lxde… all of them, she does not discriminate, she's for everyone 💅.

the main features, in no particular order because she contains multitudes:

  • many tiling geometries
  • undo tiling
  • invert tiling order
  • cycle tiling order
  • optional system tray docking and menu
  • filter to avoid listing some windows
  • filter to check some windows by default
  • command line interface

that's the whole personality and honestly? it's giving main character energy. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

every flag, every one, no skips, no skimming, we're doing this properly 🫶

  • w — opens the x-tile main window without using the panel
  • z — undoes the latest tiling operation
  • f — tiles all opened windows vertically
  • h — tiles all opened windows horizontally
  • u — tiles all opened windows triangle-up
  • d — tiles all opened windows triangle-down
  • l — tiles all opened windows triangle-left
  • r — tiles all opened windows triangle-right
  • q — quad tiles all opened windows
  • g = g 0 = g 0 0 — tiles all opened windows in a grid with automatic rows and columns
  • g rows = g rows 0 — tiles all opened windows in a grid with given rows and automatic columns
  • g 0 cols — tiles all opened windows in a grid with automatic rows and given columns
  • g rows cols — tiles all opened windows in a grid with given rows and columns
  • 1 — custom tile 1 all opened windows
  • 2 — custom tile 2 all opened windows
  • i — inverts the order of the latest tiling operation
  • y — cycles the order of the latest tiling operation
  • m — maximizes all opened windows
  • M — unmaximizes all opened windows
  • c — closes all opened windows
  • -V — prints the x-tile version
bestie. look at me. c closes all opened windows. all of them. every single one. that's not a vibe check, that's a vibe eviction. know what you're typing before you type it 😭

also notice m and M are two completely different little guys — lowercase maximizes, uppercase unmaximizes. case sensitivity is not playing games here, fr fr.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

X-Tile was written by Giuseppe Penone <giuspen@gmail.com> and Chris Camacho <codifies@gmail.com>. two icons, one app, we stan. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • https://www.giuspen.net/x-tile — go look, it's right there
  • This manual page was written by Giuseppe Penone <giuspen@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

and that's the whole page, you ate it, you understood it, you're basically a window-tiling prodigy now 🧚✨

this was x-tile 3.3 from July 2022 — mwah, sending you off with a kiss, go tile something gorgeous 🎀💖

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