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GNOME 3.26 Getting Better Half-Tiling Support

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 13 June 2017 at 11:18 AM EDT. 29 Comments

Georges Stavracas has been hacking away on better half-tiling support in GNOME Shell / Mutter and is working towards quarter-tiling functionality.

Those interested in tiling windows with GNOME 3.26, you'll want to see Georges' blog post. He's working on "smarter half-tiling" as shown below.

His work stems from this 2011 bug report and is aiming to eventually having a quarter window tiling feature.

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