GlazeTiler

GlazeTiler is a lightweight tray utility that keeps the GlazeWM tiling direction aligned with the focused window.

When the focused window is wider than it is tall, GlazeTiler sets GlazeWM's tiling direction to horizontal. When the focused window is taller than it is wide, it sets the tiling direction to vertical. This makes the next window open along the focused window's longest available axis.

GlazeTiler supports GlazeWM on Windows and macOS.

How It Works

GlazeTiler connects to the GlazeWM IPC WebSocket at ws://localhost:6123, listens for focus and focused-container movement events, and sends set-tiling-direction commands back to GlazeWM.

Initial state:
A new window (C) is about to be placed. The tiling direction depends on the focused window.

A focused window is denoted by an asterisk (*).

    -----------------------
    |                     |
    |                     |
    |      A       B*     |  <- Suppose B is focused
    |                     |
    |                     |
    -----------------------

Since B is focused, the longest direction from B's perspective is vertical, so C is placed below B:

    -----------------------
    |          |          |
    |          |    B     |
    |      A   |----------|
    |          |    C*    |  <- C is placed below B
    |          |          |
    -----------------------

Now with C focused, the longest direction from C's perspective is horizontal, so D is placed to the right of C:

    -----------------------
    |          |          |
    |          |    B     |
    |      A   |----------|
    |          | C  |  D* |  <- D is placed to the right of C
    |          |    |     |
    -----------------------

Installation

Dependencies

• Rust, installed with rustup
• GlazeWM running with its IPC WebSocket available at ws://localhost:6123

Install With Cargo

cargo install --git https://github.com/Dutch-Raptor/glazetiler.git

If ~/.cargo/bin is in your PATH, you can run glazetiler from anywhere.

Build From Source

git clone https://github.com/Dutch-Raptor/glazetiler.git
cd glazetiler
cargo build --release

The executable will be in target/release/glazetiler.

Run With GlazeWM

Open your GlazeWM config file, usually ~/.glzr/glazewm/config.yaml, and add GlazeTiler to general.startup_commands:

general:
  startup_commands: ['shell-exec glazetiler']

Diagnostics

GlazeTiler runs as a tray application and shows live diagnostic state in its tray menu:

• The current connection state at the top level
• A Diagnostics submenu with the GlazeWM IPC URL, rolling log file pattern, and an action to open the log folder
• An App submenu with version information

Tiling direction changes and ignored IPC messages are written to daily rolling log files instead of the tray menu. The app keeps the most recent 14 daily log files.

On Windows, logs are written to %APPDATA%\GlazeTiler\glazetiler.log.YYYY-MM-DD. On macOS, logs are written to ~/Library/Application Support/GlazeTiler/glazetiler.log.YYYY-MM-DD.

Limitations

• Window resize events are not currently handled directly. As a workaround, refocus the window after it has been resized or manually set the tiling direction.

Development

cargo test
cargo fmt
cargo build --release

Credits

GlazeTiler was originally based on the archived GAT-GWM project by ParasiteDelta.