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**A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python**

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Features
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* Simple, small and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts,
  widgets and commands.
* Configured in Python.
* Command shell that allows all aspects of Qtile to be managed and
  inspected.
* Complete remote scriptability - write scripts to set up workspaces,
  manipulate windows, update status bar widgets and more.
* Qtile's remote scriptability makes it one of the most thoroughly
  unit-tested window managers around.

Community
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Qtile is supported by a dedicated group of users. If you need any help, please
don't hesitate to fire off an email to our mailing list or join us on IRC.

:Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/qtile-dev
:IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/qtile

Contributing
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Please report any suggestions, feature requests, bug reports, or annoyances to
the GitHub `issue tracker`_. There are also a few `tips & tricks`_,
and `guidelines`_ for contributing in the documentation.

.. _`issue tracker`: https://github.com/qtile/qtile/issues
.. _`tips & tricks`: http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/hacking.html
.. _`guidelines`: http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/contributing.html

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