Qtile 0.1 - 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 remote scriptability makes it one of the most thoroughly unit-tested window mangers around.

Dependencies

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

Copyright Aldo Cortesi 2008