Packages are available from Tycho’s Ubuntu PPA repository. These are known to work with Debian Wheezy without any observed side effects.
Tych0’s ppa is at https://launchpad.net/~tycho-s/+archive/ppa
create file /etc/apt/sources.d/tycho.list with the following:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tycho-s/ppa/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tycho-s/ppa/ubuntu precise main
Then to install tycho’s key from the ppa above:
curl "http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8516D5EEF453E809" > tyco.key
sudo apt-key add tyco.key
and finally install with:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install qtile
To get up and running copy the default config file.
mkdir -p ~/.config/qtile
cp /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/libqtile/resources/default-config.py ~/.config/qtile/config.py