WindowShuffler

This has been superseded by the window-shuffler work in the budgie-extras repo

GUI and keyboard friendly window arranger for the budgie and mate desktop

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii4n8H4XEzc

Description

WindowShuffler is a window placement add-on. Click a window and subsequently click a tile in the grid, the window moves to the corresponding position on the screen. Shift-click two tiles will make the window span the two. Shift-click does not need to be on two tiles next to each other; cross- selection and spanning multiple tiles is possible. Options include: quick-grid all windows into the current grid, take a snapshot of current layout, reset to snapshot. The "extension" comes with a list of shortcuts, which can be called by pressing [ i ].

WindowShuffler supports multi-monitor setup. Windows are positioned in the grid -per screen-.

Set up

• Make sure all of the following dependencies are installed: wmctrl, xdotool, python3-gi-cairo, python3-cairo, python3-gi gir1.2-wnck-3.0
• Copy all icons (all .svg files) to /usr/share/pixmaps
• Store all code files in one and the same diretory
• Run the wrapper matrix_wrapper from either a shortcut or a hotcorner. Running the wrapper again toggles the grid.

Limitations

• Some windows have a fixed size, they cannot be resized.
• Some windows have a minimum size, they cannot be resized below their minimum size.

Use WindowShuffler without the matrix window

Shuffler can also be used by cli. To use, run shuffler_nogui with as arguments the size of the matrix (horizontally, vertically) + the targeted position of the active window in the matrix (where 0 is the first). An example:

shuffler_nogui 2 2 0 1

will place the active window in the bottom left cell in a grid of 2 x 2.

To make the window span multiple cells two extra arguments can be provided, for example:

shuffler_nogui 3 3 1 1 2 2

will place the active window at the bottom right hand corner of a 3 x 3 grid spanning 2 columns and rows.