shell-scripts VS tile-gaps

Touchpad gesture to alt-tab.

Not natively. If you're on X11, you can use third-party tools for touchpad gestures; I have libinput-gestures and put together this (slightly hacky but functional for me) script which you're welcome to use.

For the time being, you can use this script as a workaround.

Here is a script I created for this purpose: https://github.com/nclarius/shell-scripts/tree/main/toggle-krunner

Yes, journalctl. A GUI alternative is KSystemLog. You can filter the journal to KWin by _COMM="kwin_x11"/"kwin_wayland", however that output is still very noisy. It helps to prefix the print statements so you can filter by those with -g; here is an example. Note that for journal you can get live updated output with -f. If you're on Wayland and are not getting any output, try systemd boot.

Use this script I wrote with konsole.konsole as the window class: https://github.com/nclarius/shell-scripts/blob/main/open-on-current-desktop/open_firefox_on_current_desktop.sh

Always open on active/focused/primary screen/Always open on current desktop

I wrote myself a custom launcher script to solve the same annoying behavior with virtual desktops and Firefox: https://github.com/nclarius/shell-scripts/tree/main/open-on-current-desktop Perhaps that can be used as a starting point to write a modification for activities and with Chrome.

I found this!

You might also be interested in https://store.kde.org/p/1619642 :)

I paired this with the tile-gaps script to make the floating gap stay floating. In the script's settings you can declare the pixel gap for windows to match the panel gap and check the side that the panel is on.

Also Window Gaps. Not particularly useful but just makes me more happy looking at my desktop.

You can get gaps back with Window Gaps KWin script.

It's called: Window Gaps

You can use this kwin script as a workaround https://store.kde.org/p/1619642 However, it might cause buggy window alignment

See the discussion on https://github.com/nclarius/tile-gaps/issues/16.

I wish I was knowledgeable enough to work it out properly. I would like to be able to make it not expand the panel when I maximise a window. I use Window gaps It would look better if the panel stayed floating