Bug 503563 - Feature Request: Dynamic tiling, (similar to dwm, Hyprland, and Cosmic)
Summary: Feature Request: Dynamic tiling, (similar to dwm, Hyprland, and Cosmic)
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: Custom Tiling (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2025-04-30 05:12 UTC by John Iliopoulos
Modified: 2025-04-30 18:08 UTC (History)
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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.

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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/