a basic tool to tile windows with xdotool on 21:9 ultrawides
xfce inbuilt tiling support was too restrictive
- Put the script somewhere
- Make it executable
- Setup keyboard shortcuts to the
script <arg>(e.g.tiling left-top)
If you are using XFCE you can run tiling xfce-install which will run xfconf-query and install the default key layout
size (%) args key combo
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33/50 x 6 [left|mid|right][top|bottom]
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33/100 x 3 [left|mid|right]-full
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66/100 x 1 [left|right]-2t
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100/50 x 2 [top|bottom]-full
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50/100 x 2 [left|right]-full
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100/100 full
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66/50 x 2 [left|right]-[top|bottom]-2t
+---------++--------------------+
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+---------++--------------------+
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+---------++--------------------+