UltrawideWindows VS material-decoration

My setup: - 4K 55" TV required of course - KDE Plasma (some plugins/settings didn't work to my liking with 5.26, had other issues with the install so anyways I'm on 5.24) - UltrawideWindows script - KDE systemsettings -> Workspace Behavior -> Desktop Effects -> Desktop Grid, shortcut set to meta + E because Compiz, also when running 5.25+ it forced a "present windows" effect when showing the grid, I could not figure out how to disable it. Apologies for the snarky post, I was quite frustrated at the time, and am not looking forward to updating Plasma. - KDE systemsettings -> Shortcuts ... find the shortcuts for UltrawideWindows plugin and customize (I'm on my work laptop which I don't have that plugin, just standard Plasma 2x2 grid, so idk where exactly the binds are), readme

I almost switched to tiling but I didn't quite get over how it wasn't KDE's desktop grid. Unsolicited script recommendation: https://store.kde.org/p/1276605/

A few months ago I tried a few KDE kwin scripts.

Ultimately I went with 'Ultrawide Windows' [1], mostly because I like it better than the defaults and at the same time it is still simple to use. The Github page gives an impression of its capabilities and lists the hotkeys, but it is also available via the KDE integrated tools [2]. What I am still missing is a tool to simply define and use custom layouts.

[1] https://github.com/lucmos/UltrawideWindows/

[2] https://store.kde.org/p/1276605/

I am running Gnome 40.5. I am in search of a very easy tiling extension to help me manage windows on my ultra-widescreen monitor. When I was on KDE I used the UltrawideWindows KWin script and it was perfect for my needs.

I recently switched to an ultrawide and found the minimal tiling (corners only) available by default in Plasma to be insufficient. After lots of searching, I found this Github (https://github.com/lucmos/UltrawideWindows). It's also available if you search for Ultrawide in the KWin script section of Settings. It does all the things I want with quasitiling on an Ultrawide, chiefly, big 50% window in the middle, 2 25% windows on the sides, just like Windows PowerToys.

I found https://github.com/lucmos/UltrawideWindows - Already pretty good. If anyone knows a solution which works without a keyboard I'm all ears :)

Question, have you considered implementing locally integrated menus like in this decoration https://github.com/Zren/material-decoration ?

There is this project but I am not sure its the best way. It has an Arch and an rpm package, so you dont have to build it yourself.

You don't need empty space for that. GTK lets you drag from anywhere on the headerbar, buttons included. Similarly, the KDE material decorations which implements LIM also lets you drag from the integrated menubar. Buttons don't need to reduce the draggable area at all. Not that I want Plasma to have CSD of course, but having LIM available in official decorations would be nice.

You can get rid of menu bars. Most KDE apps use a hamburger menu by default now instead of a menu bar. Pressing CTRL+M lets you switch between hamburger menu and menu bar in KDE apps. KDE has no CSD tho and that's not something that's going to change, but you can move that hamburger menu to the title bar in window decoration settings. If you use the Material Decorations theme, you can even have your menu bar inside of the title bar. Or you can just use GNOME apps in KDE. That works too. But I mean, you've already said GNOME suits your workflow perfectly, so just keep using that. It doesn't seem like you've got any reason to switch to KDE.

Link to the project's github.

My favorite implementation is locally integrated menus; this Material Decoration theme has it nicely implemented, but unfortunately it doesn't work on Wayland. I hope it'll manage to land in Breeze at some point.

There is a KWin decoration that supports this: https://github.com/Zren/material-decoration

Zren's Material decoration has an option to hide it, Breeze windows decoration doesn't.

might be easier to just remove the title from zren's material decoration then