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In Cinnamon, pressing super+arrow keys (or other similar shortcut) resizes current window into a tile (snaps to grid). How can I customize this grid?

For example I would like to split screen into 3 equal vertical zones so that the window would behave like this:

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This and this questions shows how to define shortcuts for putting windows in an aboslute position on the screen. It's nice, but I would prefer to use arrowkey-based shortcuts to move the window around.

I'm using Cinnamon (from Linux Mint), but a generic answer would be most welcome.

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  • I'd like to modify the grid to allow tiling of two windows in a quarter of the screen. Very interested in knowing if this can be done. – HugoMailhot Feb 24 '17 at 20:09
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    This isn't a helpful comment I"m afraid, but I"ve been researching this for some time and I'm pretty sure as of min 18.1 there is no way to do it in cinnamon. You need some other wm tool, I think the best is i3 but it seems like a you give up everything, or a lot in order to have decent windows management. Anyway, good luck. – Raif Oct 08 '17 at 15:32
  • Check the answers on [this possible duplicate](https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/139730/209677) – Pablo A Sep 09 '20 at 07:32

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Cinnamon provided an extension called gtile for enhanced tiling, which might be what you are looking for.

To install the gtile extension: open the Menu -> Settings -> Extensions.

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    After installing, make sure you enable the extension "return to 'Manage' tab, select the extension, click the + button at the bottom. – Josh M. Jan 16 '19 at 12:16
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    Also, this is not working very well for me on Mint 19. I activate it with SUPER+G, double click a tile, and it shoves my window way up to the top and scrunches it to about 200px high. Maybe I'm using it wrong...? – Josh M. Jan 16 '19 at 12:18