Qtile 0.2 - Introduction

A full-featured, pure-Python tiling window manager.

Features

  • Simple, small and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets and commands.

  • Configured in Python. Command shell that allows all aspects of Qtile to be managed and inspected.

  • Complete remote scriptability - write scripts to set up workspaces, manipulate windows, update status bar widgets and more.

  • Qtile's scriptability has made a thorough unit testing possible, making it one of the best-tested window managers around.

Dependencies

If you plan to run the test suite, you will also need:

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