Bug 226519

Summary: Window positioning from keyboards shortcuts feature
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Dmitriy Styazhkin <maroldorn>
Component: coreAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: antibios, notify, xaver.hugl
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dmitriy Styazhkin 2010-02-12 12:41:14 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Archlinux Packages

It will be good if you add option which provide possibility to set window position on the desktop by keyboard hotkeys. Like compiz-fusion plugin Grid. It allow to position window not just to the half of desktop, but to the top left corner, top right corner, and so one. It divide your desktop workspace by next grid:
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And allows you to set your window on each of it part, from the keyboard. It is very useful.
Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2012-03-17 00:33:30 UTC 
moving to tiling for pot. later invocation
Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2012-07-14 09:27:59 UTC 
As of git commit 34027455aaa2ee738c45987ca2d8cb7d65491bf0 window tiling support has been removed from KWin. This change will go into version 4.10, the upcoming release 4.9 still provides window tiling support. The discussion has been taken on the developer mailing list [1]. A short summary of the reasons here:
* it is unmaintained
* it is a mode not used by any of the core KWin team
* original developer said at Akademy 2012 that he is not interested in picking up the work again
* tiling has quite some bugs, e.g. multi screen not supported
* is conflicting with other concepts in KWin, e.g. activities

A result of this change is that we will not implement any new features or fix bugs related to window tiling.

There is ongoing work to provide window tiling as an external KWin script. We encourage everyone to participate in this effort and to make it really rock and have it available once 4.10 is going to be released. The current state can be found in the git repository [2] in the directory kwin/scripts/tiling.

[1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=133149673110558&w=2
[2] https://github.com/mgottschlag/kwin-tiling/
Comment 3 Thomas Lübking 2012-07-14 09:50:08 UTC 
not a "real" tiling wish
Comment 4 Matt Klassen 2017-10-26 04:36:23 UTC 
Moving from Ubuntu Unity to Kde Neon and I really miss being able to quickly arrange my windows.  I have a multi-monitor setup:
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The portrait monitors are great for reading documents and long pages of text.  But this setup is really powerful when you can divide up the application space to consume half monitor per application.  Without the shortcut keys it's slow and manual to move windows around until they sit in the right spot.

In Unity you can use META-kp{1-9} which would maximise the current window to either:
 Meta-5 Full Screen
 Meta-2 Half Screen (bottom half)
 Meta-8 Half Screen (top half)
 Meta-3 Quarter Screen (Bottom right)
 etc...

I notice that KWin has the 'snap to' functionality to bring the window to a quarter screen layout.  It would be great if this had more functionality.
Comment 5 Martin Flöser 2017-10-26 05:45:55 UTC 
You can use scripting to extend to whatever you want. Also check out the kde store whether there is already a script doing what you need.
Comment 6 Niklas Stephanblome 2023-01-09 15:49:42 UTC 
Can this be closed? It seems like the meta + arrow keys shortcuts do what you want.
Comment 7 Zamundaaa 2024-06-07 00:49:45 UTC 
Yes