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qtile — A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python. More information:

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Problem

How to use the qtile command: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python. More information: <https://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/commands/shell/index.html>.

Solution

qtile — A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python. More information: <https://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/commands/shell/index.html>.

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

Code Snippets

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

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tldr-pages: linux/qtile

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