Grid-Tiling-Kwin

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

I do the same on KDE with the grid-tiling plugin [0]. You can also configure the rows/columns inside each workspace (I use 2x2 for max 4 windows per workspace). meta+WASD/arrow keys to move in the workspace grid, plus a 4x4 square on my keyboard mapped to each individual workspace, hold down alt too to bring the current window with you. meta+Q/E to resize the active window, and meta+tab is like alt-tab but for workspaces. meta+ctrl+WASD/arrow keys to swap window positions. meta+F/T to toggle floating/tiling, useful for calculators etc. Floated windows always stay on top. [0]: https://store.kde.org/p/1198671/ and https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin

If you're using KDE Plasma with KWin, try out https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin

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

KDE doesn't have shortcuts defined by default, but in "Global Shortcuts" under "KWin" you can define shortcuts for "Quick Tile Window to the —" and "Maximize Window". There seem to be some plugins or scripts for grid tiling, but I've never investigated. https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin (wow...) found via https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/87hutr/kde_making...