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Made a tiling manager Linux-XFCE to roughly copy Snap-Layout in Windows

Published at
Feb 3, 2025

YaTM-ish (Yet Another Tiling Manager-ish)

A very rough imitation of "Snap-Layout" feature (-of Windows) in Linux (as a tiling manager)

Note: Cloning the repo and and running install.sh will trigger a bash script which will always run in background since system start-up. To uninstall just run uninstall.sh

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ef355f34-1551-4d2a-af5a-517de2c6469f

To Setup and run-

git clone https://github.com/Karvy-Singh/YATM-ish.git
cd YATM-ish
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
chmod +x run.sh
#to be done only for the initial setup
./run.sh        # use it everytime to trigger the TM

Press number keys to select the desired configuration

Requirements-

install the following libraries:

  • SDL2
  • SDL2_image
  • SDL2_ttf (ensure you have fonts already present)
  • X11