greenTile tiles your Cinnamon desktop the moment a window opens. Start with twelve editable presets, choose a layout from live preview cards, and let windows snap where you drop them.
Every feature, recorded on a 49″ ultrawide: auto mode, presets, drag split, borders, swapping and the settings.
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Tiling that stays out of your way.
Turn it on per monitor and workspace. Everything else happens on its own, or with one shortcut.
Auto mode
Open a window and the grid makes room. Up to six windows share one row on a wide screen, beyond that they spread over full rows. Close one and the rest close the gap.
SuperCtrlA
Presets you paint
Choose from twelve editable starters in a responsive card grid, or paint your own in the 6 × 4 editor. Assign a preset to any monitor and workspace.
SuperCtrlP
Drag to split
Hold a window over the edge of another. A preview shows the new column, stack or row before you let go.
Move borders
Drag an edge, or nudge it from the keyboard. Hold the key and it speeds up.
SuperAlt←→
Swap windows
Trade places with the neighbour, walk on to the next monitor and further onto the next workspace.
SuperCtrl←→↑↓
Never tile
Let a window float with one key, or keep whole apps out of the grid with a list you fill from your installed applications.
SuperG
Wears your theme
The preset panel picks up the accent color of your Cinnamon theme, live, even when you switch themes. Or pick your own.
The preset editor · ✎ on a card or ＋ New preset
Paint the layout you want.
Click or drag in the 6 × 4 painter: each column holds as many windows as the row you pick. Add a rule for every window count that needs its own shape, give the preset a name and save. If it is assigned to the workspace, the windows move right away.
The details that make it feel right.
Things you stop noticing after a day, because they simply work. The complete list is in FEATURES.md.
Drop it, it snaps
Move a window by hand and let go. It lands in the slot under the pointer and its neighbours make room. Drag it to another monitor and both screens retile.
No empty cells
A preset made for four windows still works with three or two. Stacks shrink first, then columns, so the screen is always fully used.
Gap between windows
Set 0 to 48 px in the preset panel. Only the edges where two windows meet move in; the outer edges stay flush with the screen.
Remembers your borders
Borders you move are stored per window count. A fourth window gets its own layout, and when it closes your three-window borders come back.
Per monitor and workspace
Each monitor and workspace keeps its own preset and auto state. Hardware identity uses model and serial; failed detection uses a separate fallback key. After a hotplug greenTile waits for the windows to settle before it tiles.
Glides, never flickers
Windows glide into place in 250 ms. They get their final size at once and only the picture moves, so terminal text does not reflow halfway. You can switch the animation off.
Leaves your panels free
Cinnamon panels that stay visible are kept clear, on every side. Maximized windows are released before they are tiled.
Light, dark or automatic
The preset panel follows the desktop's color scheme or stays light or dark. The sun and moon button switches it with one click, and the green state color can follow your theme.
Keeps your order
Windows are tiled in the order they already have on screen. Rearrange them by hand and the next retile respects it.
Live previewseach preset card shows what a click would tile right now
Panel follows youswitch workspaces and the open list updates title, assignment and previews
Three or six columnsSuperCtrl3 or 6 works even with auto mode off
Retile on switchcoming back to a workspace with auto mode on tiles it again
App list stays currentinstalling or removing software updates the never tile picker
Settings apply livehotkeys, exclusions and colors change without a reload
Primary-only workspaceswith that Muffin option, secondary monitors share one layout
Translatedevery string goes through gettext, complete in 19 languages
Ten keys. That's it.
All of them can be changed in the extension settings.
Auto mode on, tile nowSuperCtrlA
Auto mode offSuperCtrlD
Preset panelSuperCtrlP
Float this windowSuperG
Three equal columnsSuperCtrl3
Six equal columnsSuperCtrl6
Wider, narrowerSuperAlt→←
Taller, shorterSuperAlt↓↑
Swap left, rightSuperCtrl←→
Swap up, downSuperCtrl↑↓
Up and running in a minute.
Download the zip from the latest release and run install.sh. On X11, restart Cinnamon to activate the new code, switch greenTile on in the Extensions manager and press SuperCtrlA. Newer Cinnamon versions and Wayland are not yet fully verified. Free software under the GPL v3, a fork of gTile.
Fresh installs include twelve starter presets. After upgrading, missing starters are added once when the new code starts: your existing presets, assignments and saved panel size are kept. Later updates do not restore starters you delete or overwrite ones you edit.
# unpack the release zip and install for your user
unzip greenTile-*.zip
cd greenTile-*/ && ./install.sh
# restart Cinnamon on X11 to activate updated code
Ctrl+Alt+Esc # or Alt+F2, then r# Wayland: log out and back in; support not yet fully verified# then: Extensions → greenTile → enable
