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Revision as of 18:41, 15 March 2015
qtile
Summary
qtile is a tiling window manager written in python. More can be found at the project's website
Owner
- Name: John Dulaney
- Email: <jdulaney@fedoraproject.org>
- Release notes owner:
Current status
Detailed Description
- Simple, small and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets and commands.
- Configured in Python.
- 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 mangers around.
Benefit to Fedora
Bring a really slick window manager with an active upstream to Fedora.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
Completed.
- Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
How To Test
- Install qtile (dnf install qtile)
- In desktop/session manager, select qtile
- log in
- Hit meta(Windows key) - r to bring up launcher on task bar at bottom of screen
- type firefox and hit enter
- Firefox should come up
- Use ctrl-meta-q to log out.
User Experience
Nice, highly configurable, python-y awesomeness!
Dependencies
All dependencies are packaged, upstream has released 0.9.0
Contingency Plan
Package is in repos, change is in place.
Documentation
Coming