Scroll through your windows. Let them tile into place. Or move them around by hand.
Choose how your windows are arranged on each workspace, with the controls and finishing touches to make it feel like home.
Young and actively evolving. Usable today, with rough edges; configuration and behavior may change between releases.
01 / ARRANGE
Find your arrangement.
Try each layout below. Keep one for everything, or use a different one on each workspace.
Scrolling
Keep your windows in a horizontal ribbon. Move to the next app and the workspace follows, giving each window room to breathe.
An illustration of window behavior. Pick a different layout for each workspace.
Simplified illustrations of window movement, rather than screen recordings.
02 / LIVE IN IT
Beyond the arrangement.
The details that matter when this is where you spend your day.
Each screen, its own space.
Keep independent workspaces on each monitor. Use dynamic or named workspaces, with fractional scaling and workspace restoration when a display reconnects.
A mouse belongs here, too.
Move and resize windows with the mouse, or navigate with your keyboard. Optional title bars bring close and maximize buttons, along with moving and resizing without holding a modifier key.
Keep a task together.
Collect related windows in tab groups. Hide a group in a named scratchpad, then bring it back on whichever monitor you are using.
Adjust it as you go.
Set your keybinds, window rules, blur, shadows, and animations in TOML. Configuration reloads while you work, with diagnostics to help you find mistakes.
And when it is time to play.
HDR and variable refresh rate are available as opt-in features. Support depends on your display, graphics stack, and applications.
03 / STAR HISTORY
Umbriel, over time.
GitHub stars for the Umbriel repository, from its first supporters onward.
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04 / THE DESKTOP AROUND IT
At home with Noctalia.
Pair Umbriel with Noctalia Shell for your bar, launcher, notifications, lock screen, and wallpaper-driven colors. Built by the same people, with a shared look and feel.
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