The developers of the Tiling Shell extension for GNOME have rolled out version 15.1, which introduces a feature for smart border radius detection. This enhancement aims to improve the appearance of borders around focused application windows, whether they are tiled or floating on the desktop.
Domenico Ferraro, the lead developer, described the challenge: different applications can have varying border radii, making it difficult to create a cohesive look with static borders. Instead, Tiling Shell will now dynamically calculate the radius of a window upon launch, ensuring that the drawn border matches the actual window’s rounded edges. This feature requires no additional configuration, maintaining user-friendliness while enhancing aesthetic quality.
The update comes with other improvements, including:
- The focused window’s border scales according to the monitor’s scaling factor.
- The border moves above the actual window border instead of being displayed inside it.
- New keybindings allow users to switch focus between windows.
- Workspaces will remember the layout of the last used workspace.
Additionally, a new button in the indicator menu opens the preferences dialog, making it more accessible for users to customize their experience.
This update resolves some existing issues related to window focus when using keyboard shortcuts after waking from suspend and adjusts the multi-monitor setup to prevent apps from appearing on the wrong screen.
Tiling Shell is free and open-source software compatible with any Linux distribution that has GNOME 42 or later, including Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and subsequent releases.