Grid-Tiling-Kwin VS floating-tiles

KWin used to have no tiling capabilities at all and people came up with lots of add-on scripts like kwin-tiling, Grid-Tiling-KWin, Krohnkite, Bismuth and so on. This gave users tiling, but it was always a bit hackish, getting KWin to do something it wasn't designed to do.

Grid-Tiling-Kwin

Personally I use Grid-Tiling-Kwin, which is working great with Wayland. Not sure why it won't allow more than 2 splits horizontally/2 splits vertically, though.

I only had issues a few times when installing new theme or icons. Desktop widgets might sometimes move a bit after restart, other than that it works well. I also use https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin

For starters, there is a couple of tiling scripts for KWin (Kröhnkite and Grid-Tiling). You can also turn any EWMH-compliant WM into a tiling one with PyTyle.

Also have noticed that when a notification shows up, an entry on the window list plasmoid shows up too - so it could be that they got kind of a regular window behavior somehow. This behavior is reported in bug #411462, which I think is the cause of another issue I'm having (using Grid-Tiling-Kwin and when opening a plasmoid, it wants to fill a space as if it were a regular window, and it messes up with the layout of previously opened windows) but am not sure if it's related to the focus stealing issue.

Note that there are at least other alternative. Maybe not as powerful as I imagine Bismuth/Krohnite is, the one I use, [Grid-tiling-kwin](https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin) (though it's being funny lately with Wayland and not sure why)

Perhaps a working kwin script - for example, I use Grid-Tiling-Kwin and for some reason while in use it keeps rewriting that file.

Tiling window managers take a lot of time to learn and configure, and typically require configuration through text files. I would not recommend starting with a true tiling WM. You can use System76's Pop tiling GNOME extension, which still allows you to use the mouse to drag windows as well as add tiling exceptions, or you can install KDE and use Grid-Tiling-KWin. Krohnkite also works, but it might be a little too advanced. Grid-Tiling allows you to meta-drag windows around to change their positions rather than relying entirely on keyboard shortcuts, just like the Pop tiling.

And I developed Floating Tiles so my windows never overlap.

The newest release fixes several bugs, improves the performance and adds more options to control the behavior. You can get it through - Discover, - the KWin script module in system settings, - the KDE store in the browser, or - GitHub.

Floating Tiles - prevent window overlap

Floating Tiles, the no-stacking stacking window management extension to prevent floating windows from overlapping, can now be applied more customly and has received many bug fixes: GitHub KDE Store

You are also invited to take a look at some other KWin scripts I wrote: - Tile Gaps (add space around windows snapped to a part of the screen) - Floating Tiles (prevent windows from overlapping) - Step Resize (keyboard shortcut to stepwise resize a window) - Step Move (keyboard shortcut to stepwise move a window) - Swap Left and Right (keyboard shortcut to swap the windows on the left and right screen halves)

I also did some more work on Floating Tiles, the no-stacking stacking window management script: https://store.kde.org/p/1619690 https://github.com/nclarius/floating-tiles

Floating Tiles is available in the KDE store: https://www.pling.com/p/1619690/ and on GitHub: https://github.com/nclarius/floating-tiles