{"id":4138,"date":"2026-10-19T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/tiling-shell-adds-mouse-button-layout-activation-support\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T02:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:00:42","slug":"tiling-shell-adds-mouse-button-layout-activation-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/tiling-shell-adds-mouse-button-layout-activation-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiling Shell Adds Mouse Button Layout Activation Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tiling Shell 18.0<\/strong> adds mouse-button activation for its tiling layouts and support for GNOME 51.<\/p>\n<p>To tile a window, drag it with the left mouse button held, then press and hold the right button to show the layout. Release the window over a zone to snap it into place\u2014no keyboard shortcuts required. The option is off by default, so enable it in the extension\u2019s settings.<\/p>\n<p>The update also fixes oversized interface elements when fractional scaling is enabled. Users can now set a shortcut to untile all windows at once, choose whether changing a layout affects every workspace, and limit the \u201craise together\u201d behaviour to the current display.<\/p>\n<p>Tiling Shell offers several ways to manage windows, including drag-and-drop zones, keyboard shortcuts and a GTK window context menu. It supports GNOME 45 through 51 and is available from the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/extensions.gnome.org\/extension\/7065\/tiling-shell\/\">GNOME Extensions website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Existing users should receive the update automatically; log out and back in for it to take effect. 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