My qtile config

Setting up qtile

qtile docs can be found here

Info on running qtile as the wm for Gnome can be found here. It should be possible to do something similar with mate...

Installing qtile

$ sudo apt-get install libpangocairo-1.0-0 libxcb-render0-dev libffi-dev
$ sudo python3 -m pip install xcffib cairocfii qtile

Adding qtile to the desktop list

$ cp misc/qtile.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/