Feature Request / Behavioral Change: Window Snapping

[LinuxGuy-cyber]

I have this option turned on Window Tiling:

With the option turned on,
Current Behaviour: Drag a window to the bottom of the screen. It tiles to the bottom half of the screen. Very nice. Now, drag another window to the top of the screen. It maximizes (also as intended).
Suggested Behaviour: Instead of maximizing all the time, it only maximizes when there's no app tiled to the bottom half of the screen. If an app is already tiled to the bottom half, it then snaps to the top half instead of maximizing.

[JeffreyGbeho]

This is a real gap. Cinnamon's snapping doesn't look at what is already tiled, so dragging to the top always maximizes regardless of what's below it.

I've been building an extension that covers part of this. It doesn't do the automatic "work out which half is free" logic you're describing, but it does let you pick the zone explicitly: drag a window toward the top of the screen and a layout picker appears, hover the zone you want, drop it there. https://github.com/JeffreyGbeho/tilo

The suggestion part, offering to fill the space that's left after you place the first window, is the thing I'd most like to add next, and this thread is a good argument for it. If you want to open it as an issue on the repo I'll track it there.

Worth being clear that it's X11 only and I've only tested on a single monitor.