BreezyTile

A tiling shell replacement for GNOME Shell to simplify your workflow and accelerate your productivity.

The project is based upon Material Shell. While Material-Shell aims to apply a 'material' replacement of gnome's UI panels, BreezyTile focuses on just clean tiling management without actually changing gnome's UI. This GNOME Shell extension provides a performant, opinionated mouse/keyboard workflow, but without any changes to the actual gnome shell layout.

Demo

(outdated demo video)

STATUS: BETA (expect bugs!)

REQUIRES: gnome-shell >=3.32.0

Installation

1. Clone the project to the gnome-shell extensions folder:

git clone https://github.com/jadbox/breezytile.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/breezytile@jadbox

2. Reload GNOME Shell:

• On X.org: Hit Alt+F2 and type the command r
• On Wayland: Log out and back in

3. Open gnome-tweaks and activate the BreezyTile extension OR enable it using

gnome-shell-extension-tool -e breezytile@jadbox

Arch Linux

1. You can choose to install using the Arch Linux User-Community Repository (AUR) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-shell-extension-breezytile-git/
   Assuming you're using yay:

yay -S gnome-shell-extension-breezytile-git

2. Reload GNOME Shell:

• On X.org: Hit Alt+F2 and type the command r
• On Wayland: Log out and back in

3. Open gnome-tweaks and activate the BreezyTile extension OR enable it using

gnome-shell-extension-tool -e breezytile@jadbox

Workflow Hotkeys

Some hotkeys might already be used by GNOME Shell - please check your keybindings first.

Desktop navigation

• Super+W Navigate to the upper workspace/category.
• Super+S Navigate to the lower workspace/category.
• Super+A Focus the window at the left of the current window.
• Super+D Focus the window at the right of the current window.

Window manipulation

• Super+Q Kill the current window focused.
• Super+[MouseDrag] Move window around.
• Super+Shift+A Move the current window to the left.
• Super+Shift+D Move the current window to the right.
• Super+Shift+W Move the current window to the upper workspace.
• Super+Shift+S Move the current window to the lower workspace.

Extra Hotkeys

• Super+Space Cycle the tiling layout of the current workspace.
• Super+Escape Toggle the UI of BreezyTile, like a Zen mode.

Optional Configuration

• Get Plata Theme as the GTK and shell theme
• Get Tela Icon Theme as the icon theme