I have my plasma already configured and I’m pretty happy with it. I did try bismuth because I wanted a tiling feature without going full on tiling WM (i’m not at that level yet and I don’t think I need something so dynamic like that for now), which worked fine after setting up some stuff and shortcuts, but saw it has been deprecated for some reasons. Even before seeing this news, I thought how about actually trying to use the default tiling features since I haven’t. This is where I got confused.
If you press Meta + T you can “edit the layouts” and while it isn’t “automatic” you have a lot of options to make a layout that fit your needs for the most part. However, the tiling is manual (like on WIndows) where you have to drag to the corners or the side, and it will be a set tile, but it doesn’t follow the customized layout’s form? I can do without the key shortcuts, I don’t mind having to use the mouse since I already do anyway, but I would like if I manually tile something to follow the layout I had set. Am I missing an additional package I don’t know of/a specific script for Kwin? I couldn’t really find any useful (updated) thread or even the official KDE post about tiling, if there was one.
If you use tiling, do you use any specific script? I know I could just start installing a bunch of them and try them out, but I wanted to be more sure from someone here to avoid major issues.
Thanks in advance and hope you have a great Friday and weekend
Its not the same thing. If you want to use the tilling introduced in 5.27, you have to hold SHIFT down , move the window where you want and after that you just need stop “holding” the window.
I personally also press SUPER for moving a window without the need to grab the top bar.
KZones is a tiling script which allows you set up different layouts. Alas you can’t configure it visually as the plasma build-in facility, but have to specify the layouts in a text fashion. Otherwise it works good in my experience.
