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title: "Windows tiling in KDE Plasma 5"
date: 2024-08-08T18:04:20+0200
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KDE Plasma 5 introduced a (more or less) advanced window tiling manager. Most of
the time I use `META` plus one or two of the arrow keys to move windows quickly
to one half or one quarter of the screen. Plasma's advanced tiling manager
enables us to use layouts that are not defined by half or quarter of the screen
real estate.

I keep forgetting how to use this, so this is my note to self:

- Define layout: `META+T`
- Move window to predefined location: hold `SHIFT` while dragging the title bar
  of a window with the mouse, or press `META`, klick anywhere into the window
  and start dragging, _then_ while still holding `META`, additionally press
  `SHIFT` to make the window snap to one of the predefined layout.

Link: <https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.0/>

I wish there were keyboard shortcuts to move windows into one of the custom tile
layouts as well: <https://discuss.kde.org/t/keyboard-shortcuts-for-new-tiling-feature/1843>

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### Added 2025-03-02

With Plasma 5.3, you can now define keyboard shortcuts to move a window to
a custom tile. On my system, there were now shortcuts defined by default, but
it is very easy to do so in `System Settings > Shortcuts > KWin`. I have now
mapped `META`+`SHIFT` and the arrow keys to move windows to custom tiles.
