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Rooms and window layouts

A built-in window manager: windows tile themselves as they open and close, and one sentence brings back a whole project's windows across every screen.

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Choose an example to copy it, then try it in Jevie.

Use itHow it worksLimitsWhere it's kept

Use it

Tiling

• tileEvery layout as a picture; pick one and tiling is on
• tile gridtile chaintwo columnsA layout by name or window count
• next layoutstop tilingCycle layouts (⌃⌥Space), or turn tiling off
• grid on every screenThe same layout on all your screens
• cycle widthstack this windowtab this columnColumns in a scrolling strip

Windows

• tidy my windowsThe windows on this screen laid out once, side by side or in a grid, and not kept tiled; undo window move or undo tidy puts them all back with one sentence. A window that will not take its place (one with a smallest size, say) is named. It needs two windows, and stays out of the way of Stage Manager and of another window manager
• put xcode, safari and terminal side by sidetile slack and chromeThose apps, in that order; one with no window open is opened first, and if its window is slow to show the others are placed at once and it takes its column when it appears
• hide the other appsshow everything againOnly the app in front stays shown, then everything comes back
• tile leftsnap rightmaximize windowThe front window to a half, or the whole screen
• first thirdtop left quarteralmost maximizereasonable sizeEvery place Raycast's window commands name, said as its name; left half again goes to two thirds, then a third
• next displaymake largermove upmaximize heighttoggle full screenMoved from where the window is; restore puts the last move back
• window 1200x800move window to 100, 80An exact size, or a place in points from the screen's corner
• make xcode the main windowswap this window leftThe big spot, or trade places
• focus on xcodefloat this windowOne window fills the screen, or leaves the layout
• clean this screenbring my windows backEverything else set aside, for screen sharing
• undo window moveput the window backThe last window Jevie moved, placed or filled goes back where it was; say it again for the one before (the last twenty are kept), once per window after a side by side, once for all after a tidy

Rooms and desks

• remember this as my work roomopen my work roomA project's windows saved and brought back
• save this as workA desk: every display and Space kept
• show all my spacesprevious roomEvery Space at a glance, or back to the last room

How it works

Tiling lays windows out the instant one opens, closes or moves screens, in a dozen layouts from grids to a scrolling strip, each mirrored or turned with a key. It stays out of the way: dialogs, full-screen windows and small tools are never tiled, and it pauses under Stage Manager or another window manager.

Opening a room finds each window again, opens apps that are closed and hides the rest; nothing is ever closed.

Limits

• Tiling is off until you turn it on. Tile my windows and keep my windows tidy turn it on; tidy my windows never does.
• A key another app already holds is named in tiling, not taken.
• Seeing and moving between Spaces needs yabai; without it, rooms work on the Space you are on.

Where it's kept

~/.jevie/tiling.status.json (layouts per screen, what is set aside), ~/.jevie/rooms.json (rooms and desks).

In Jevie, help tidy answers from this page as you type.

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