Windows and workspaces

Windows tile in tab groups: each new one opens as a tab beside the window you are in. Split groups to see them side by side. Apps and browser windows tile, float and close the same way.

Tiling

• A new window opens as a tab next to the focused one. Closing a window gives its space to the rest.
• Focus follows the pointer. The window under it gets the keyboard; a click raises it.
• Every window sits in a group, shown as tabs (Meta+W) or stacked (Meta+S). Meta+B or Meta+V moves the window out of its group, to the right or below, into a group of its own. Meta+E splits every tab of a group out side by side.
• Meta+Shift+arrow moves a window along its tabs, then out of its group. A window alone in its group joins the next group that way.
• Meta+A selects the whole group, so the next key moves, floats or fullscreens it. A window alone in its group skips it and selects the windows around it.
• Drag a window by its title bar, or anywhere with Meta held, to move it. A highlight shows where it will land: a side of a window, or the middle to join its tabs. Drag the border between windows to resize them.

Title bars and tabs

Every window has a title bar with its icon, name, and buttons to float, fullscreen and close it. In a tabbed group the title bars are the tabs.

• Middle-click a title bar or tab to close it.
• The + after a group's last tab opens the launcher, and what you open joins the group.
• Drag a tab along its strip to reorder it, or off the strip to pull it out.

Floating

• Meta+Shift+Tab floats a window above the others, or tiles it again.
• Dialogs, and windows of a fixed size, open floating.
• Drag a floating window by its title bar, or with Meta held. Resize it from any edge, or with Meta+right-drag.
• The scratchpad keeps windows hidden until you want them: Meta+Shift+Minus sends one there, Meta+Minus brings it back over the screen.

To always float some app, add a rule in your config module:

export const Shell = runManganese({  floating: [{ app: "pinentry" }, { app: "^Slack$", title: "^Huddle" }],});

Each rule matches the window's app id and title, as regular expressions.

Workspaces

• There are ten, Meta+1 to Meta+0. Meta+Shift+number sends the window there.
• Each monitor shows one workspace. The bar lists the ones on its monitor that have windows.
• Going to a workspace another monitor shows moves you to that monitor.
• Pressing the number of the workspace you are on goes back to the last one.

Fullscreen

Meta+F fills the monitor with the window, or with the group after Meta+A. Meta+Shift+F spans every monitor. A video's own fullscreen button does the same.

How it all works: WINDOW-MANAGEMENT.md.