While I like many of the new features in GNOME Shell, I missed the Grid plugin from Compiz. I liked getting to tile some windows without the overhead of a tiling WM. gnome-shell-grid runs in the background, listening for the following keys:

• C-M-S-u or C-M-KP_7 -- Top Left corner
• C-M-S-k or C-M-KP_8 -- Top half
• C-M-S-i or C-M-KP_9 -- Top Right corner
• C-M-S-l or C-M-KP_6 -- Right half
• C-M-S-m or C-M-KP_3 -- Bottom right corner
• C-M-S-j or C-M-KP_2 -- Bottom half
• C-M-S-n or C-M-KP_1 -- Bottom left corner
• C-M-S-h or C-M-KP_4 -- Left half

 git clone git://github.com/paulswartz/gnome-shell-grid.git
 sudo apt-get install python-xlib python-wnck
 python gnome-shell-grid/gnome-shell-grid.py

gnome-shell-grid is released under the GPLv3. You can read the license in the LICENSE.txt file.

I'm Paul Swartz. You can find me on Twitter @paulswartz or on email.