kwin-tiling

Tiling script for kwin

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Tiling script for kwin

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GekkePrutser·Jan 14, 2022

There is krohnkite but I recently read development was halted and there was a new more favourable one. I've bookmarked it somewhere but I'll check! Edit: this is the one: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth There's also kwin-tiling https://github.com/kwin-scripts/kwin-tiling Not sure which is best tbh. I have yet to try them

In Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment

opencl·Feb 11, 2020

The only out of the box tiling feature I'm aware of is the Windows-like hotkeys (meta+arrows) for snapping windows to half or a quarter of the screen. There are kwin extensions for more extensive tiling support such as: https://github.com/kwin-scripts/kwin-tiling

In Plasma 5.18

emilsedgh·Feb 11, 2020

Kwin used to have tiling support builtin. That was removed from core. There are multiple different Kwin script that add the tiling functionality now. Like this [0] and this [1] Regarding being lightweight, KDE is very very light these days. In terms of memory usage it rivals XFCE. Not quite sure about power usage, but since Plasma Mobile is being developed and it shares a lot of code with Desktop, I assume it shouldn't be too bad. [0] https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin [1] https://github.com/kwin-scripts/kwin-tiling

In Plasma 5.18

the_pwner224·Feb 26, 2019

You may want to look into getting a tiling plugin for KDE. I'm in pretty much the same boat as you, used to use tiling WMs but now on Arch + KDE. The KWin tiling plugins are fairly simple - the only configuration is setting shortcuts to move windows around and resize them (I use super+WASD to move between workspaces, super+ctrl+WASD to move windows around on the screen, super+alt+WASD to move windows between workspaces, and super+Q/E to resize windows). That's it - the plugins make using the computer easier in 95% of cases without adding too much complexity, for for the other 5% you just toggle off the tiling and do it manually. And of course the mouse is still usable to move/resize windows. Here's a newer script that overall seems to work better: https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin And the older script I used to use: https://g

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wyoh·Oct 7, 2018

You can use a tiling script. I use Quarter tiling for example https://github.com/Jazqa/kwin-quarter-tiling/issues But there's other like https://github.com/faho/kwin-tiling

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