05-25-2006
I'm not sure if this topic will survive the no flamewars rule. But in case it does, my choice is Arch Linux. I like it because it is lightweight and fast. The base system is very small and you add to it just what you want. Archlinux with XFCE desktop on my old PII-350mhz with 256MB ram was faster than my Athlon XP1600+ with 3/4 gig of ram running Win XP.
It isn't designed for novices, but if you are willing to learn it will teach you a lot about linux. The system is installed and configured at the command line instead of using GUI tools and helpers. And the community/forums are pretty knowlegeable and helpful.
edit: Fix typo at end of 1st paragraph.
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NAME
bluetile - full-featured tiling for the GNOME desktop environment
SYNOPSIS
bluetile [--help] [--version] [--restart]
DESCRIPTION
Bluetile is a tiling window manager designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking
layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping. Bluetile tries to make the
tiling paradigm easily accessible to users coming from traditional window managers by drawing on known conventions and providing both mouse
and keyboard access for all features.
o Designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment
o Hybrid approach: Stacking window layout & tiling layouts available
o All features accessible from mouse, as well as keyboard
o Maximizing & minimizing windows in all layouts
o Good multihead support
o Proper handling of fullscreen applications
OVERVIEW
To quickly get up and running just start Bluetile from your current window manager/desktop environment (preferably GNOME). Bluetile will
replace the currently running window manager (if the window manager supports this) and start up.
One way to set up Bluetile as your default window manager under GNOME is to make sure that the environment variable WINDOW_MANAGER contains
the path to the Bluetile binary before GNOME starts. This can be achieved by putting something like the following line into ~/.gnomerc:
export WINDOW_MANAGER=bluetile
If you use a packaged version of Bluetile, your distribution might already provide you with a preconfigured xsession.
OPTIONS
--help print help message
--version print the version number
--restart request a running Bluetile process to restart
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
This is a list of most keyboard shortcuts for Bluetile:
Win+Return Launch terminal
Win+p Launch GNOME "Run application" dialog
Win+a Switch to stacking window layout
Win+s Switch to tiled horizontal layout
Win+d Switch to tiled vertical layout
Win+f Switch to fullscreen layout
Win+j Move focus to the next window
Win+k Move focus to the previous window
Win+Space Move focus to the master window
Win+Shift+j Swap the focused window with the next window
Win+Shift+k Swap the focused window with the previous window
Win+Shift+Space Swap the focused window with the master window
Win+h Shrink the master area
Win+l Expand the master area
Win+u Shrink a slave area
Win+i Expand a slave area
Win+, Increment the number of windows in the master area
Win+. Decrement the number of windows in the master area
Win+Shift+c Close the focused window
Win+z Maximize/zoom focused window
Win+m Minimize focused window
Win+Shift+m Restore next minimized window
Win+o Show window menu for focused window
Win+t Push dialog window back into tiling
Win+b Toggle to previously displayed workspace
Win+1 .. Win+9, Win+0
Switch to workspace N
Win+Shift+1 .. Win+Shift+9, Win+Shift+0
Move client to workspace N
Win+w, Win+e, Win+r
Switch to physical/Xinerama screens 1, 2 or 3
Win+Shift+w, Win+Shift+e, Win+Shift+r
Move client to physical/Xinerama screen 1, 2 or 3
Win+F5 Refresh layout
Win+Shift+q Quit Bluetile
CONFIGURATION
Edit the file ~/.bluetilerc to configure Bluetile.
AUTHOR
Jan Vornberger <jan.vornberger@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
perl v5.10.1 2010-11-07 BLUETILE(1)