Bluetile

Bluetile (GNOME tiling window manager)

• Bluetile is a full-featured tiling window manager designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment on Linux. It offers both a traditional stacking layout and tiling layouts, with mouse and keyboard accessibility for all features. The project originated as a university thesis and has since continued as an open-source effort. This description is taken from Bluetile’s official site, bluetile.org, specifically its About/Development sections. (bluetile.org)

• Development and authorship: The Bluetile project was developed by Jan Vornberger, who is listed on the project page as the author. The site also notes that Bluetile’s repository and development materials were hosted with a primary development link (Darcs) at code.haskell.org/~jav/bluetile/. (bluetile.org)

• Historical context and status: The Bluetile site provides historical notes such as Bluetile 0.6 (published 2011-11-26) and Bluetile 0.5.3 (2010-08-10), indicating the project’s active development period in the early 2010s. There is no clear indication on the site of recent maintenance beyond those historical entries, suggesting the project may be inactive in recent years. (bluetile.org)

• Where to find more: The Bluetile project also points to its development wiki and code repository, with references to the Haskell-based build and related modules used in its tiling configurations. This information is presented in the same Bluetile website section dedicated to development. (bluetile.org)

Notes:

• The primary, explicit source for these details is Bluetile’s official site at bluetile.org, particularly the Development section and About content. The page lists Jan Vornberger as the creator and provides historical release notes and development links. (bluetile.org)

If you’d like, I can try to locate archived copies or earlier discussions to confirm current activity or any forks, and provide a more up-to-date status check.