My journey into tiling window managers – Bluetile
Recently I heard about Bluetile. So I gave it a shot.
Bluetile is a tiling window manager for X based on xmonad. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximizing screen use. Bluetile’s focus lies on making the tiling paradigm easily accessible to users coming from traditional window managers by drawing on known conventions and providing both mouse and keyboard access for all features. It also tries to be usable ‘out of the box’, requiring minimal to no configuration in most cases.
Bluetile is perfect used together with Gnome desktop environment. This surely is the tiling window manager to start with.
To use Bluetile you don’t have to configure anything. It works ‘out-of-box’. In one way this is great, since you don’t have to waste any time, but on the other hand – it’s bad, because you cannot customize anything. Of course there is a way – compiling Bluetile yourself – and as developer says, user-friendly configuration is on the way.
In comparison to Xmonad, you can use mouse to manipulate with windows – resize, move. Also I have to say that the floating window management is really nice in comparison to Xmonad.
I think that Bluetile is perfect for people who use Gnome, but want to explore the tiling window manager world without losing too much time. I will definitely follow this project.
Screencast – Bluetile from Jan Vornberger on Vimeo.
Tags: bluetile, discoveries, linux, window managers, xmonad