material-shell/material-shell
Material Shell
Material Shell is a tiling window manager and Linux desktop environment that replaces traditional window management with a grid-based organizer. It functions as a spatial layout engine that automatically arranges application windows into non-overlapping grids to maximize screen space.
The system acts as a desktop session manager, recording and restoring window positions and workspace assignments to preserve the exact state of a previous session after a restart. It employs a coordinate-based layout engine to map applications to specific rows and cells for consistent placement.
The project covers keyboard-driven navigation for switching between virtual desktops and application windows. It also includes interface styling capabilities for applying visual themes, color schemes, and blur effects to the environment.
Features
- Tiling Window Managers - Automatically arranges application windows into non-overlapping grids to maximize screen space and productivity.
- Virtual Workspace Managers - Isolates application windows into distinct virtual desktops to reduce visual clutter and separate workflows.
- Desktop Layout Persistence - Saves window positions and workspace assignments to ensure the previous session arrangement is preserved.
- Interactive Window Manipulation - Implements interactive window movement and resizing using mouse gestures and modifier keys within a tiling layout.
- Workspace Session Managers - Tracks window positions and workspace assignments to restore the exact state of a previous session.
- Desktop Layout Persistence - Records window coordinates and workspace assignments to a local store to recreate the desktop environment after restart.
- Grid Layout Managers - Organizes application windows through a spatial grid and tiling engine to simplify navigation.
- Window Layout Grids - Implements coordinate systems that map screen pixels to virtual window placement grids for precise window positioning.
- Linux Desktop Environments - Provides a graphical user interface for Linux based on a predictable grid-based navigation system.
- Tiling Window Managers - Automatically organizes open applications into non-overlapping grids to maximize screen space.
- Window Switching and Tiling - Provides keyboard shortcuts and interface panels for efficient window switching and workspace navigation.
- Spatial Focus Navigation - Provides logic for switching active windows based on their physical proximity and cardinal direction on the screen.
- Desktop Session Restoration - Saves and restores the exact positions of windows and workspace assignments after restarting the computer.
- Desktop Workspace Layouts - Organizes a desktop workspace using a spatial grid and structural layout system.
- Window Organizers - Maps applications to rows and cells for consistent window placement and navigation.
- Keyboard-Driven Window Orchestration - Provides toolsets for moving and swapping window locations using keyboard-driven grid overlays.
- Session State Restoration - Remembers and restores the previous configuration and placement of application windows upon startup.
- Desktop Interface Customization - Changes the look and feel of the environment through themes, color schemes, and visual styles.
- Interface Appearance Customizations - Allows applying light, dark, or blurred visual themes to customize the interface appearance.
- Style Injection Systems - Applies global CSS and theme overrides to the desktop environment to customize colors and visual effects.
