Bug 503563

Summary:	Feature Request: Dynamic tiling, (similar to dwm, Hyprland, and Cosmic)
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	John Iliopoulos <jxftw2424>
Component:	Custom Tiling	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, notmart
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description John Iliopoulos 2025-04-30 05:12:32 UTC

SUMMARY

This is a feature request for a built in KDE system that automatically tiles windows as if the user is using a dynamic tiling window manager.

The goal is to have a keyboard focused workflow that focuses on keybinds, krunner, terminals. With the ease of use and customization of KDE, that the user can switch to with the press of a button, similar to COSMIC.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
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OBSERVED RESULT
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EXPECTED RESULT
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SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.3-300.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 570 Series


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Example implementation:
https://github.com/anametologin/krohnkite

Other compositors/window managers developers should look into:
https://hyprland.org/
https://dwm.suckless.org/
https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch
https://github.com/riverwm/river
https://www.enlightenment.org/