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• Tactile vs gTilegTile also places GNOME windows on a configurable grid and supports theming, with a GNOME 45 rewrite that changed some earlier behaviour.
• Tactile vs ForgeForge brings i3 and sway style automatic tiling into GNOME instead of manual grid placement, though the project is looking for a new maintainer.
• Tactile vs Pop ShellPop Shell switches from manual grid placement to automatic keyboard-driven tiling, backed by System76, with development following the GNOME version used by Pop!_OS.
• Tactile vs PaperWMPaperWM changes to scrollable tiling on a horizontal strip with keyboard control and per-app window rules, a layout that takes time to get used to.
• Tactile vs Tiling ShellTiling Shell replaces the keyboard grid with FancyZones-style custom layouts and a Windows 11 style snap assistant, plus multiple monitor support, under GPL-2.0.
• Tactile vs Tiling AssistantTiling Assistant adds Windows-style snap assist and extra layouts to GNOME tiling and is maintained under the Ubuntu organisation rather than by a single developer.