A new version of Tiling Shell, the flexible window snapping assistant for GNOME Shell, is available.
Tiling Shell v16.2 now surfaces nifty ‘Window Suggestions’, a feature introduced in last month’s v16.0 release, when using edge tiling. Edge Tiling (as no doubt you well know) is triggered by dragging a window to the sides of the screen.
Ubuntu’s “Enhanced Tiling” feature shows a Tiling Popup when window snapping to make it faster to tile other open apps to the remaining tile spaces without needing to manually drag them to screen edges.
Window Suggestions is the same idea, but arguably more useful: it shows window thumbnails, not app icons, so if you’ve got several windows from the same app open (like the file manager) you can see which is which.
Also, if a lot of windows are open and thus available to tile, the suggestions list can be scrolled to allow you to find the one you want. A single click is all it takes to snap the window in-place.
As Window Suggestions for Edge Tiling is not enabled in Tiling Shell by default you’ll need to head to the extension’s Preferences panel to toggle it on (which is where you can also enable/disable window suggestions for the key-drag tiling system method).
Elsewhere, the extension now makes use of GNOME’s newer Nautilus-based file picker where supported (GNOME 47+), falling back to the regular GTK file chooser where it isn’t, and adds UI/preferences/label text translations for Spanish and Simplified Chinese.
It also fixes a couple of bugs, including a flaw that meant maximised windows couldn’t be (re)tiled left or right with keyboard shortcuts, regardless of gaps setting, and ensures the extension remembers chosen layout when creating/moving to a new workspace.
Finally, this version of Tiling Shell adds support for GNOME 48 – nice and early, ahead of next month’s GNOME 48 release. This is GNOME version Ubuntu 25.04 will use when released in April.
Another terrific update to this feature-packed window tiling tool—more powerful, configurable, and featured window tiling tool than Ubuntu’s own as it supports custom layouts, mouse-led and keyboard-driven window tiling, and more.
Already have Tiling Shell installed? You will get this update automatically, in the background (the update will only apply after you next log out and back in).
If you don’t have Tiling Shell installed but you want to try it out, you can get the latest release (supports GNOME 42 and above) from the GNOME Extensions website: