Qtile is simple, small, and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets, and built-in commands. Qtile is written and configured entirely in Python.

Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python. Qtile is simple, small, and extensible. It is easy to write your own layouts, widgets, and built-in commands.

Ubuntu and Debian >=11 comes with the necessary packages for installing Qtile. Starting from a minimal Debian installation, the following packages are required:

Qtile has been packaged for a number of Linux distros, and it may not be necessary to download the official release directly. Check out the installation guide to see if your distro is included.

Here are Qtile's core runtime dependencies and the package names that provide them in Ubuntu. Note that Qtile can run with one of two backends -- X11 and Wayland -- so only the dependencies of one of these is required.

Stable versions of Qtile are currently packaged for Arch Linux. To install this package, run: Please see the ArchWiki for more information on Qtile. © Copyright 2008-2021, Aldo Cortesi and …

Qtile screenshot (default configuration). Qtile is a full-featured and hackable window manager written in Python, compatible with Xorg and Wayland.

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.

Starting Qtile¶ There are several ways to start Qtile. The most common way is via an entry in your X session manager's menu. The default Qtile behavior can be invoked by creating a qtile.desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions. A second way to start Qtile is a custom X session.

Qtile is a full-featured, hackable and dynamic window manager with small resource consumption while being easy to customize. Garuda Qtile uses which makes it easy and convenient to launch application without remembering keybindings.