A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python
Features
Simple, small and extensible. It’s easy to write your own layouts, widgets and commands.
Configured in Python.
Runs as an X11 WM or a Wayland compositor.
Command shell that allows all aspects of Qtile to be managed and inspected.
Complete remote scriptability - write scripts to set up workspaces, manipulate windows, update status bar widgets and more.
Qtile’s remote scriptability makes it one of the most thoroughly unit-tested window managers around.
Community
Qtile is supported by a dedicated group of users. If you need any help, please don’t hesitate to fire off an email to our mailing list or join us on IRC. You can also ask questions on the discussions board.
- Q&A:
- IRC:
- Discord:
https://discord.gg/ehh233wCrC (Bridged with IRC)
Example code
Check out the qtile-examples repo which contains examples of users’ configurations, scripts and other useful links.
Contributing
Please report any suggestions, feature requests, bug reports, or annoyances to the GitHub issue tracker. There are also a few tips & tricks, and guidelines for contributing in the documentation.
Please also consider submitting useful scripts etc. to the qtile-examples repo (see above).
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to the authors of SwayWM, LabWC, and DWL, whose implementations and source code served as inspiration and reference for protocol implementations and architectural patterns while building the Wayland backend (wayc) for Qtile.
Maintainers
Maintainers Emeritus
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