X-tile is an application that allows tiling windows in different ways and works on any X Desktop (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Lxde, ...) X-tile in Xubuntu: Tile All Triangle Right Some the of the included features: tile checked windows in many ways (vertically, horizontally, grid...) undo tiling invert tiling order command line interface Install Navigate to here and download the "debian/ubuntu package". Then either open it and install it with "Ubuntu Software Center" or open a terminal window and run (adjust the path to the deb file): sudo dpkg -i path_to_deb/x-tile*.deb References x tile