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# Aerospike Gnome (Tiling Window Manager)
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Aerospike is a simple and opinionated tiling window manager for gnome.
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This project takes inspiration from previous gnome tiling window managers such
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as [forge](https://github.com/forge-ext/forge)
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and [cosmic-shell](https://github.com/pop-os/gnome-shell-extension-pop-cosmic) as well as
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MacOS tiling WMs, mainly [Aerospace](https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace) (not affiliated).
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## Current Features
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- Auto-tiling
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- Accordion layouts with variable sizes
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- Tabbed layouts
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- Tree-based (albeit set depth of 2 for now) container-window paired layout similar to Aerospace
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- Diagram for this is pending
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## Planned functionality
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- Full Keyboard control w/window movement
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- Sub-containers (more tree layers than the 1 supported for now)
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- Gap size customization
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## Not currently planned
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- Active window borders
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- See my other extension for a rainbow or static border - [PrettyBorders](https://github.com//pretty-borders)
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- complicated window dragging features and uis
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- Aerospace supports control + drag to combine windows while moving with the mouse, and normal window dragging.
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## Installation
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Aerospike isn't on the GNOME extension store yet, so install it from source.
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This builds the extension locally and drops it into your user's extension dir.
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Requires [just](https://github.com/casey/just) as the command runner.
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Arch Linux:
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```bash
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sudo pacman -S git just
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```
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Clone and install:
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```bash
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git clone https://github.com/lucasoskorep/aerospike-gnome
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cd aerospike-gnome
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just install
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```
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After installing from source, enable it (toggle in the Extensions app, or):
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```bash
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gnome-extensions enable aerospike@lucaso.io
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```
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Re-login or restart the shell (`Alt+F2` → `r` on X11) to pick it up.
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## Development
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Building and debugging locally needs a few extra tools:
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- `just` — the command runner
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- `fnm` — fast node version manager (the build runs on Node via pnpm)
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- `glib2` — provides `glib-compile-schemas` for compiling the settings schema
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Arch Linux:
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```bash
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sudo pacman -S just fnm glib2
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```
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Set up the Node runtime with fnm (the pinned version lives in `.node-version`):
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```bash
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fnm install
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fnm use
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```
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Then:
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```bash
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just install # install deps + build + drop into the extension dir
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just lint # lint
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just test # run the test suite
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just test-watch # run tests in watch mode
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just live-debug # tail gnome-shell logs while you poke at it
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```
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