BLUETILE(1)															       BLUETILE(1)

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)