qtile

linux

A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python.

Examples (5)

Start the window manager, if it is not running already (should ideally be run from `.xsession` or similar)

qtile start

Check the configuration file for any compilation errors (default location is `~/.config/qtile/config.py`)

qtile check

Show current resource usage information

qtile top --force

Open the program `xterm` as a floating window on the group named `test-group`

qtile run-cmd --group test-group --float xterm

Restart the window manager

qtile cmd-obj --object cmd --function restart