I turned gnome-shell into a tiling window manager

I think more people should write similar extensions or even new window managers. In my opinion, “traditional” window management is quirky, even if we've all grown used to it. Resizing and moving windows, for example, are painful given how you need to click on small specific areas to carry them out. Most window managers on Linux have overcome with a combination of a key press and mouse click allowing you to move/resize by clicking anywhere in the window. With a tiling window manager you usually have some keyboard shortcut to do it.<p>Still, none of those approaches solve the problem in all situations. Managing windows can be “uncomfortable”. Sure you can make use of workspaces, or tags (à la dwm, I think the tag paradigm is beautiful) or whatnot, but you don't want to think about the act of switching windows. Have you ever found yourself alt-tabbing through a pile of windows and be annoyed by not getting to the right window easily enough (“Oh, drat, I pressed Tab one too many times”). Whenever I have to use OS X, I press the Exposé shortcut for almost every context switch.<p>So yeah, this is kind of extension is more than welcome and others should continue to innovate. If nothing else good comes out of Gnome 3, at least it would have pushed people to think about their interaction with the interface.

What tool was used to make that screencast? I'd love to know about a tool for Linux that overlays keypresses on the video like that.

Looks good. There seems to be a lot of experimentation with tiling wm-s, even win8 seems to be going in that direction if I saw those videos right. Change is good.

I think what we need is a window manager (or a window layout behaviour) <i>per workspace or screen</i> rather than a single window manager to rule them all.<p>I tried to use the tiling window manager xmonad and found it <i>excellent</i> for terminal stuff. The problem was everything else.<p>Firefox/thunderbird/etc. don't work in a tiling window manager, particularly Firefox and particularly popups.

Is this any different from xmonad? That's what I'm currently using with Gnome. Way better than this Gnome 3 rubbish.

Well done, looks really nice. Tiling wm is very useful.

It's still a piece of crap, though.

You might want to add a little more information on your page explaining what it is. I.e. What is the difference with Bluetile? With tmux?<p>Also, if I start gnome-terminal, run tmux, and put it full-screen.. isn't it a "gnome tiling manager" ?