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Developers in need of a hackable tiling Window Manager solution written and configured in Python
About Qtile
Optimize your workflow by configuring your environment to fit how you work. Efficiently use screen real estate by automatically arranging windows with minimal visual cruft. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets, and built-in commands. There's always someone to lend a hand when you need help. Leverage the full power and flexibility of the language to make it fit your needs. We aim to always support the last three versions of CPython, the reference Python interpreter. We usually support the latest stable version of PyPy as well. You can check the versions and interpreters we currently run our test suite against in our tox configuration file.
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