PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell

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This is really useful if you want to use your distro's maintained gnome package for a desktop, but cast longing glances towards the ergonomics of tiling WMs. It's a gnome shell extension that adds its own particular flavour of keyboard shortcut driven window tiling.

The scrolling mechanic is odd, but I'm finding it very usable so far.

Submitted before, but I hadn't come across it, so hope it might be useful to others.

We really should make a introduction video.

In the meantime Julias blog post (https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/01/05/paperwm/) have a short gif demonstrating scrolling and this PR (https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM/pull/225#issuecomment-575...) show the newish drag'n'drop functionality.

I chanced on Julia's post, which happened to alert me to PaperWM. I had considered i3, StumpWM etc from time to time, but in the end always opted to stay with Gnome to avoid too much messing about.

I've only spent a day with PaperWM, but I'm impressed so far. You've done a great job with it.

Thanks :)

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