blog/content/posts/2024/plasma-5-tiling-manager/index.md

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Windows tiling in KDE Plasma 5	2024-08-08T18:04:20+0200	false	false		Linux KDE Plasma productivity

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.