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Recent versions of KDE have pretty good tiling support, so it's possible to have a rich DE and good tiling.

moooo99 1y ago
I also find KDE to be good enough for my personal taste. I have tried different WMs, but always found the huge configuration effort to not be worth the marginal productivity gains I get over KDE + some custom keybinds
backscratches 1y ago
Even xfce will tile windows to 4 quadrants, left/right-halves, top/bottom-halves. I have not studied other tiling window managers enough to know what I'm missing.
- bryanlarsen 1y ago
  Even Windows will do that, and so did older KDE. KDE 6.1+ will do a lot more than that, everything that I previously used a tiling manager to do.
SubiculumCode 1y ago
when you say tiling support, do you mean automatic tiling, or sending it to a corner via key combo?
- WD-42 1y ago
  It's not even the tiling so much, but the ability to move directionally between windows using super+hjkl or whatever, that's the killer for me. The big DEs like KDE and GNOME can technically tile but you're still stuck with alt-tab to switch windows which is horrible.
  - bryanlarsen 1y ago
    meta-alt-up/left/down-right by default on KDE.
  - silon42 1y ago
    Alt+Tab is great... I wouldn't use a desktop without proper Alt+Tab (exactly like in KDE).
  - cout 1y ago
    That's why I wrote this: https://github.com/cout/windowfocus https://github.com/cout/windowfocus I bind Alt+Shift+H to run "windowfocus left", which figures out which window is "to the left" based on some heuristics such as the direction between the center of the active window and the other windows on the screen. Since it works uses the center of the window, it works with overlapping windows (but intentionally excludes windows that are occluded). I've used it in both xfce and kde (though not recently).
    - bryanlarsen 1y ago
      KDE's meta alt arrow doesn't exclude occluded windows, but if you're tiling you probably don't have those
- corank 1y ago
  If you want automatic tiling, there are Kwin scripts for that eg https://github.com/anametologin/krohnkite/ https://github.com/anametologin/krohnkite/ Essentially turning kwin into a tiling WM
agumonkey 1y ago
gotta admit that since windows 7 added win+arrow to quickly split, maximize, i don't have a hard need on tiling WM anymore. I very rarely use other layouts like stacks ..
bryanlarsen 1y ago
P.S. Meta-T to get started with tiling on KDE.

I also find KDE to be good enough for my personal taste. I have tried different WMs, but always found the huge configuration effort to not be worth the marginal productivity gains I get over KDE + some custom keybinds

backscratches 1y ago

Even xfce will tile windows to 4 quadrants, left/right-halves, top/bottom-halves. I have not studied other tiling window managers enough to know what I'm missing.

bryanlarsen 1y ago
Even Windows will do that, and so did older KDE. KDE 6.1+ will do a lot more than that, everything that I previously used a tiling manager to do.

SubiculumCode 1y ago

when you say tiling support, do you mean automatic tiling, or sending it to a corner via key combo?

WD-42 1y ago
It's not even the tiling so much, but the ability to move directionally between windows using super+hjkl or whatever, that's the killer for me. The big DEs like KDE and GNOME can technically tile but you're still stuck with alt-tab to switch windows which is horrible.
- bryanlarsen 1y ago
  meta-alt-up/left/down-right by default on KDE.
- silon42 1y ago
  Alt+Tab is great... I wouldn't use a desktop without proper Alt+Tab (exactly like in KDE).
- cout 1y ago
  That's why I wrote this: https://github.com/cout/windowfocus https://github.com/cout/windowfocus I bind Alt+Shift+H to run "windowfocus left", which figures out which window is "to the left" based on some heuristics such as the direction between the center of the active window and the other windows on the screen. Since it works uses the center of the window, it works with overlapping windows (but intentionally excludes windows that are occluded). I've used it in both xfce and kde (though not recently).
  - bryanlarsen 1y ago
    KDE's meta alt arrow doesn't exclude occluded windows, but if you're tiling you probably don't have those
corank 1y ago
If you want automatic tiling, there are Kwin scripts for that eg https://github.com/anametologin/krohnkite/ https://github.com/anametologin/krohnkite/ Essentially turning kwin into a tiling WM

agumonkey 1y ago

gotta admit that since windows 7 added win+arrow to quickly split, maximize, i don't have a hard need on tiling WM anymore. I very rarely use other layouts like stacks ..

bryanlarsen 1y ago

P.S. Meta-T to get started with tiling on KDE.