It supports all versions of Ubuntu (including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) and it also works with GNOME 40, should you be using a distro that has it. WinTile is of the best window tiling GNOME extensions out there. In this instance we want quarter tiling, and the best tool for the job is the terrific WinTile. These brilliant little bolt-ons allow us to “fill” in gaps with the functionality, behaviour, or styling we’re missing. Thankfully for us, GNOME Extensions exist. There’s also no current indication that the feature is being added any time soon. In fact, there have been a couple of valiant efforts to add quarter tiling to GNOME Shell but none of them have, thus far, ever been merged or accepted into main. People have tried adding to GNOME Shell before.

Heck, even Microsoft is in on the action as both Windows 10 and Windows 11 offer quarter tiling to all users out of the box, no fuss. This is a bit of an oversight in my opinion as many other Linux DEs (Regolith, COSMIC, MATE, KDE Plasma) do support it.

Ubuntu (though more accurately GNOME Shell desktop) doesn’t let you snap windows to corners, aka ‘quarter tiling’, out of the box. Others DEs (i3, MATE, KDE Plasma, etc) and even Windows offer quarter tiling – but Ubuntu doesn’t you drag a window to the side of the screen and let go and it fills exactly half of your available desktop) or maximising (drag a window to the top of the screen and let go and it fills the whole of your desktop).

“ Doesn’t Ubuntu have window snapping features built in?”, you ask - and yes, it does, but those only work for edge tiling (i.e. Learn how to enable quarter tiling on the Ubuntu desktop using a free, open source GNOME extension.

Windows 10 tiling window manager