KWin Window Tiling

I recently switched from GNOME desktop to KDE 6.7 (hands up hands down motion) and almost immediately ran into an issue with window tiling.

KDE's KWin has built in window tiling, where on GNOME I had to survive using the Gnome Tiling Assistant extension. Tiling Assistant was great, easy to setup and simple to configure, but I ran into some issues where the extension was not updated for new GNOME versions in time. Having native quarter tiling supported in KWin would have been a great benefit to me.

Except!

KWin's quadrant tiling was "real tiling" based, meaning windows snapped into corners and multiple windows were tiled as a "group" which meant they would resize together and always take up the full screen once you started tiling them. Many people enjoy this which is why it is the default. I do not.

I want my windows to size where I want them and be placed where I want them and then I want the window manager to leave them alone forever and never move or ask or mention them ever again.

Since I was unable to find a setting knob to "turn off the tiling but keep the tiling placement behavior", which I know, sounds so niche and yet this is exactly how my workflow has grown; I needed a way to have the behavior I was used to.

So, coming full circle, I wrote my own KWin script (extension) because of course I did. It's a single file, written in Typescript, sets hotkeys by default to the way I do things on my desktop, and does absolutely nothing else.

--

Android stuff soon, I hope.

Stay tuned!

========================
Follow pyamsoft around the Web for updates and announcements about the newest applications!
Like what I do?

Send me an email at: pyamsoftapps@gmail.com
Or find me online at: https://pyamsoft.blogspot.com

Follow my Facebook Page
Check out my code on GitHub
=========================