bismuth
KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm. (by Bismuth-Forge)
krohnkite
A dynamic tiling extension for KWin (by esjeon)
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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bismuth
Posts with mentions or reviews of bismuth.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-18.
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
What level are you interested in scripting? In KDE Plasma you can interact with the desktop UI via JS: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/scripting/
And then for something more sophisticated there are extensions like https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth.
It does all feel a little disorganized/wild-west-y compared to say, a .vimrc with a list of plugins and bindings, which is something that makes a system like Nix (or a fully containerized DE of some kind) appealing
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Hyprland Crash Course
It had, but they are all dead until ported to the new kde 6.
https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/issues/471#issuecom...
This is what I used. I found no good replacement for it and that is what made me switch to hyprland.
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This week in KDE: Double-click by default
one thing i would totally recommend for kde is bismuth https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/
it's tiling for kde and it works REALLY well.
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I find myself getting annoyed with having to set each window Up how I like it. So far this is a set up I enjoy when working on projects. How can I get Ubuntu to save this 'set up' so I can quickly open these apps in this view?
Take a look at a tiling window solution. I'm currently using bismuthwith gives similar arrangement to what you're looking for and helps massively with productivity when working on an ultrawide
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What is a good windows tiling manager for beginners?
As a good halfway house you could do worse than KDE with Bismuth (https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth), which is an add-in that will give you great tiling capability, fully controllable via the keyboard. Couple this with KDE native virtual desktops and you have a pretty decent tiling window manager.
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Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux
Plasma 5.27 added in some native tiling support. There are also some kwin scripts available to add tiling to it.
https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth
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I am a little concerned about Tiling on KDE 6
Not-good stuff: This tiling is very incomplete. It doesn't allow you to snap everything to your tiles at once, it doesn't support different tiles per virtual screen/workspace and, perhaps more importantly, with that addition and Plasma 6 on the way, compatibility with Bismuth and similar addons is getting lost.
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Trying to make a case for tiling WM.
Since you are already using KDE, you can very easily try how much you like tiling: just install bismuth: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth It's a plasma add-on that enables tiling in KDE. If you don't like tiling, just disable the plugin again and uninstall bismuth.
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A couple of questions regarding Bismuth tiling extension
No, it doesn't have that. Here is the list of layouts.
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Manjaro / KDE ā hard to dislike
No I was talking about Bismuth which was amazing and actively maintained but due to kwin updates it's not working and is apparently not going to be updated
krohnkite
Posts with mentions or reviews of krohnkite.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
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kde tilling features needs some attention
That's exactly what happens. Bismuth was a fork of Krohnkite. If someone needs Bismuth enough, they will pick it up, fork it or whatever.
- Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux
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Manjaro / KDE ā hard to dislike
I wonder if this PR would help you.
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KDE VS GNOME
No idea what exactly that shell does but in KDE krohnkite https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite was pretty popular until it was somehow superseeded by bismuth https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth (which forked krohnkite or was inspired by or whatever) and now with Plasma 5.27 there's initial work on a native tiling window manager including a whole new API for people to build upon, and which can be accessed with Meta+T.
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Is there a way to install Kwin - Bismuth on my steam deck in a way that doesn't make my head hurt?
You can use Kronkite just fine. Bismuth is a fork of it, and their feature-sets are practically the same.
- I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
- Iām done with pop
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KDE/Plasma Nordish
Kwin tiling script - Krohnkite
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Are there options for dynamic window tiling in a traditional desktop environment?
Do you know how that differs from https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite it seems like that is another tiling extension.
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What does your workflow look like on Linux?
I love virtual desktops and Krohnkite; it works infinitely better than windows.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bismuth and krohnkite you can also consider the following projects:
i3-and-kde-plasma - How to install the i3 window manager on KDE
kwin-tiling - Tiling script for kwin
bismuth - KWin tiling extension, that gets you down to bismuth. Wayland Support included! š [Moved to: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth]
Grid-Tiling-Kwin - A kwin script that automatically tiles windows
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
Lightly - A modern style for qt applications.
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
i3-gaps - i3-gaps ā i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
materia-kde - Materia KDE customization
exwm - Emacs X Window Manager