qtile.org


a hackable tiling window manager

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

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

  • Configured entirely in Python.

  • Command-line shell that allows all aspects of Qtile to be manipulated and inspected.

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

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

Since one of Qtile's aims is to stay out of your way, there's usually not much to show off in a screenshot. That said, here's an image showing some of Qtile's built-in widgets in bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Click for very large version:

Copyright 2010 Aldo Cortesi