- #UBUNTU OPEN NEW WINDOWS ON TOP HOW TO#
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If you research this online, you may find references to Dbus fixes these are no longer required, because it’s now part of the default Ubuntu install. Enter the following command, and restart your system: The most complex step is doing the following: In search, type “powershell,” right-click this, and select “Run as administrator” (see image below). Setting up and running the WSL has become somewhat simpler than when it was first introduced back in 2016, as long as your version of Windows 10 has the Fall 2017 Creators Update, which is Windows build 16215, aka Redstone 3. So it’s free, it’s easy to get up and running, won’t take up much space, it’ll expand your knowledge, and help freak out your friends! What’s not to love? Let’s give it a try, and explain how you can have some open source fun along the way. It also enables you to monkey around with Linux from the comfort of Windows, without even needing to fire up a virtual machine.
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It enables them to directly install and run common open-source tools, commands, and server services without leaving Windows. You’re not limited to tiling windows in corners either.“Why?” we hear you despairingly cry. To tile it to the upper left corner you just press super + ↑.
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This snaps the windows to the left side of the screen, but full height, split-screen style. Once you install WinTile and enable it you can drag applications windows to the corners of your screen to ‘snap’ them into place, as demoed in the gif a few sentences above.ĭon’t want to snap windows using the mouse? You don’t have to! WinTile also lets you snap windows using keyboard shortcuts, and rearrange/move windows you have already snapped.įor example, to snap a window to the upper left corner you first focus the window then you press super + →. It supports all versions of Ubuntu (including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) and it also works with GNOME 40, should you be using a distro that has it. WinTile is of the best window tiling GNOME extensions out there. In this instance we want quarter tiling, and the best tool for the job is the terrific WinTile. These little bolt-ons let us to “fill” in gaps with the functionality, behaviour, or styling we’re missing. Thankfully for us, GNOME Extensions exist. There’s also no current indication that the feature is being added any time soon. In fact, there have been a couple of valiant efforts to add quarter tiling to GNOME Shell but none of them have, thus far, ever been merged or accepted into main. People have tried adding to GNOME Shell before. Heck, even Microsoft is in on the action as both Windows 10 and the upcoming release of Windows 11 offer quarter tiling to all users out of the box, no fuss. This is a bit of an oversight in my opinion as many other Linux DEs (Regolith, COSMIC, MATE, KDE Plasma) do support it. The OS (or more accurately GNOME Shell desktop) doesn’t let you snap windows to corners, aka ‘quarter tiling’, out of the box. Others DEs (i3, MATE, KDE Plasma, etc) and even Windows offer quarter tiling – but Ubuntu doesn’t you drag a window to the side of the screen and let go and it fills exactly half of your available desktop) or maximising (drag a window to the top of the screen and let go and it fills the whole of your desktop).
“Doesn’t Ubuntu have window snapping features built in?”, you ask - and it does, but it only works for edge tiling (i.e.
#UBUNTU OPEN NEW WINDOWS ON TOP HOW TO#
In this post we show you how to enable quarter tiling on the Ubuntu desktop using a free, open source GNOME extensions.