bismuth VS kwin-autotile

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

No, it doesn't have that. Here is the list of layouts.

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

Then in late 2022 KWin independently got some basic (manual) tiling functionality of its own. There are new scripts appearing, such as kwin-autotile, that build on this and extend it.

Instead KWin offers basic yet-useful tiling features, like for your wide screen case and an API to allow third-party programs to extend on top, so other people in the community can build upon it. This has already started https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/kwin-autotile/.

Have you had a look at https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/kwin-autotile?

This works quite well with the new tiling features in 5.27: https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/kwin-autotile

KWin's tiling engine is just an engine. By itself it supports only manual tiling. Scripts are beginning to appear to make use of it; if you like kwin-tiling-script and you're on Wayland, check out Autotile.

not perfect, but try this https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/kwin-autotile it make's tile from your current layout with native plasma tiling.

Script