tile-gaps VS kwin-tiling

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

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.

I said I was using kwin-tiling-script, and yes, it does have that—I use[d] it all the time (it's called "Grid" layout)

If you're referring to kwin-tiling the author has archived that as of end of 2022 and it's unmaintained. It's not really anything KDE did on purpose except to do the usual updates and that's broken an unmaintained project.

I use kwin tiling

If you are ready to sacrifice gaps (and some other advanced features like taking away title bar from tiled windows) and run multi monitor, then I would suggest kwin-tiling. It has no settings, but out of the box with changing hotkeys similar to i3wm you can get great tiling experience (it even supports moving window from monitor to monitor using meta+shift+hjkl if it hits on the border)

The last DE I used before jumping to bspwm was KDE with kwin-tiling and one of the features I miss is the ability to change "on the fly" the opacity of a given window with keyboard shortcuts.

I like KWin-Tiling-Script (https://github.com/kwin-scripts/kwin-tiling), but Bismuth has better desktop integration and is more popular.

Before making the jump to a tiling WM , I think you should use a tiling KWin script for KDE. It will help you get used to a tiling WM but still have the familiarity of KDE. https://github.com/kwin-scripts/kwin-tiling is a good one that I use.

Indeed. This has served me well: https://github.com/kwin-scripts/kwin-tiling

Hi, I'm using "Tiling from Faho", it has also i3 mod. For additional info visit kwin-tiling (for enabling settings buttons see last section Troubleshooting).