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Qtile

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Qtile is an open-source, tiling window manager that is written in and extended with the Python programming language.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for x11-wm/qtile A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python

debug Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces
pulseaudio Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or PipeWire)
test Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
wayland Enable dev-libs/wayland backend

Emerge

root #emerge --ask x11-wm/qtile