Tile windows in Openbox

I've been interested in tiling WMs for a while now, but I don't really have the time to configure one. I was fascinated by this article, and I promptly installed "tile" with yaourt. Sadly, the "tile" command returns command not found, and I haven't found a file to use pacman -U on.
Any suggestions or alternatives?

soupcan wrote:I've been interested in tiling WMs for a while now, but I don't really have the time to configure one. I was fascinated by this article, and I promptly installed "tile" with yaourt. Sadly, the "tile" command returns command not found, and I haven't found a file to use pacman -U on.
Any suggestions or alternatives?
you´re looking for tile-windows (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16168). tile (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7498) from the AUR is something completely different.
i named it tile-windows, because tile was already used.
btw, i´d rather recommend whaw (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O … _Search=Go).
you need the mouse for that, but i think it´s more versatile.
vlad
ps: d´oh! i should have read further - tomk said it all...
Last edited by DonVla (2009-02-03 00:27:28)

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