Just posting to let everyone know that I've published packages for the latest Qtile release on Ubuntu 14.10. See the mailing list announcement for more details. Additionally, we will be doing a 0.7 release shortly, so please let me know if there are any release blocking bugs!

Just posting to let everyone know that I've published packages for the latest Qtile release on Ubuntu 13.10. See the mailing list announcement for more details.

Ahoy! I've updated the packages in my Ubuntu 12.10 PPA to be version 0.5. Please let qtile-dev know if you have any problems!

Ahoy! I have put up new packages for qtile for 12.10, so I thought I'd write a bit about what's actually in the packages. First, they're available via the standard:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:tycho-s/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qtile

A few things to note about these packages. First: they now install a qtile.desktop file, so any compliant freedesktop.org login manager should see qtile as a login option. Note that this just invokes qtile directly with no arguments, so you'll have to put your configs in the standard location. If you want to run a custom .xsession, you'll still need to set that up yourself.

Second, these packages no longer depend on xpyb-ng, but depend on xpyb (1.3.1) directly. I did this for a few reasons. I've had several users report that 1.3.1 works directly for them (i.e. xpyb-ng is not actually required to run qtile). If there is no problem with using the stock implementation, I felt like we should switch to that. Naturally, if problems come up and we need to move back to our fork, I'm happy to rebuild, however, I think that's unlikely.

Third, which hash are these packages based on? They're based on 87dc6924cb, which is on the development branch. I've been running this code both at home and at work for several months now, as well as several other people. While there are still several bugs (patches welcome!), I feel that it's much more stable and user friendly than the master branch.

Fourth, based on some statistics that Launchpad provides, it looks like there were about 100 installs of the Ubuntu PPA. One or two of those were probably my test VMs, but that means there were a fair number of other people who checked qtile out. Very cool!

Feel free to e-mail me or qtile-dev with any feedback! (Unfortunately, I've been inadvertently banned from qtile-dev somehow. Still waiting on a resolution to that, so if you find a bug with the packages, go ahead and just file it on the github tracker and I'll fix it ASAP.)