Installation

Lazytiler

Streamline your desktop and supercharge your productivity on SwayWM and i3WM with Lazytiler!

Installing Lazytiler is an absolute breez.

Note: You will need to have both rust and cargo installed on your system.

To install rust, run the command below:

Refer to the official rust website to install rust the recommended way. You can also compile cargo from source if you wish.

Let’s get started with the Lazytiler installation process.

If you have rust and cargo installed on your system, you can use the fast way of installing lazytiler with the following command:

cargo install lazytiler

Once installed you can add lazytiler to your SwayWM or i3WM configuration like so:

exec lazytiler

or you can echo it into your SwayWM or i3WM configuration like so:

echo 'lazytiler' >> ~/.config/sway/config

echo 'lazytiler' >> ~/.config/i3/config

Clone the repository and navigate into it.

git clone https://github.com/wmouton/lazytiler.git
cd lazytiler

Build using cargo.

cargo build --release

The binary will be located in target/releases as lazytiler in the same directory where you ran the build command.

Create a directory called bin in your ~/.cargo/ directory.

mkdir ~/.cargo/bin/

Copy the binary to your ~/.cargo/bin/ directory.

cp target/release/lazytiler ~/.cargo/bin/lazytiler

Execute the lazytiler command in a new terminal.

lazytiler

You can now add the binary path to your SwayWM or i3WM configuration file with exec lazytiler command like this:

exec lazytiler

After doing so, you need only logout and log back in or do a reboot.

Preview with and without Lazytiler.

The default horizontal split tiling layout in SwayWM.

The default vertical split tiling layout in SwayWM.

A preview of lazytiler’s tiling layout enabled on SwayWM.

A preview with some terminal applications on a low-end machine.

Tile your layouts automatically and give yourself some freedom with a boost in productivity and workflow.

Restart your SwayWM or i3WM by logging out and back in or doing a reboot.