krohnkite

I’m currently using Krohnkite [1] to get dynamic tiling in KDE, and Klassy [2] to get i3wm-like pixel borders instead of full window decorations. [1]: https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite [2]: https://github.com/paulmcauley/klassy

Plasma 5.27 added in some native tiling support. There are also some kwin scripts available to add tiling to it. https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite

You might want to have a look at kronkhite if you are looking for a KDE Tiling-Window-Manager. I came from awesome-wm and never looked back. [1]: https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite

For tiling, Krohnkite[1] is what I use. It integrates with KWin wonderfully, provides a ton of layouts and entries in the default system shortcut settings to set keybindings. For those more graphically oriented, there is also Bismuth[2] which seems cool. 1: https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite 2: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth

I use an abnormally large ultrawide monitor, and find khronkite (another KDE tiling script) to be very useful. The three column layout works particularly well on the ultrawide, while the standard tiling layout works great on the laptop's built in screen. There is a little tiny hack to enable settings on the krohnkite github page: https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite

Khronkite is another "honorable mention" for KWin tiling and I prefer it over the one mentioned in TFA: https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite With KDE+X11 it's trivially easy to change the window manager away from KWin and still get the benefits of suspend/resume, multi-monitor auto-configuration, wifi, system tray, etc, by just setting the KDEWM environment variable in your profile. https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Using_Other_Window_Manage... But with things moving to Wayland, etc, this simple swap out method isn't possible right now, so I've been keeping tabs and playing with Khronkite and KWin-tiling every so often for when I inevitably swap over to Wayland. It's basically a perfectly serviceable tiling WM OS without having to deal with any of the screen locker, systray, R&R, that Sway et al force you to contend with yourself. Most of

For those on KDE just wanna try a tiling-WM-ish behaviour, I found Kröhnkite[1] pretty neat. It cannot be compared to a real tiling WM, but it's nice to get a feeling what this is all about. DWM like behaviour is intended... [1] https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite

For nearly one month now I am working on switching from MacOS to linux desktop and after experimenting a lot, the switch is pretty near. I'm using a Lenovo T460s WQHD, and the most important advice I could give you: - First try with a VM is ok, but if you really plan to switch, try on REAL HARDWARE - most of the issues I had was not using hardware with Linux support (e.g. Wifi) - Don't try to "rebuild" MacOS or Windows - change the mindset to linux - Plan a huge amount of time (weeks) for getting a neat set up and try at least for 4 Weeks, before you give up - Make a list of what are really MUST have features at the end and keep it as short as possible - Understand at least the fundamentals of the boot process, the X Server, Desktop Environments/Window Managers/Display Managers, Terminal / Shell / TTY - Don't switch distro too

Being heavily keyboard-first (or only) is one of the reasons I've tended to bounce off of tiling wms I've tried in the past, despite liking the concept generally. I tend to alternate between wanting to do everything from the keyboard and wanting to use my mouse heavily. I've never liked having to switch my hand between keyboard and mouse when I'm in the middle of something, so I usually have customizations for both input modes, eg FireFox addons for mouse gestures and vi-keys active simultaneously. For window management I've always liked the idea of tiling wms, but they tend to have less mouse support than I'd like, or getting the support they do have to work the way I want is more involved. Ironically, I recall ratpoison being pretty good in that department, when I tried it years ago. These days I use KWin (designed for a primarily flo

As a long time dwm[1] user and the developer of a tiling script for KDE, Krohnkite[2], I'm purely curious what makes i3 so popular. It makes you spend extra brain cycles on managing windows, which isn't far from stacking WMs in my perspective. I mean, this extra cycle was the reason why I abandoned stacking WM. Especially on small ("13 ~ "15) laptop screens, where people usually have <= 4 apps per virtual desktop, I think i3 doesn't have much benefit, because there are only a few possible layouts: half-and-half, master-and-stack(│├│ or │┤│) and quarter(田). All of these are well covered by Tile layout (or nv-stack, according to Arch wiki[3]). On the other hand, I do admit manual layout can be really useful on large screens and ultra-wide ones. There's neither golden nor silver layout that always works well on large area. There are just too