Bug 509270 - Custom tiled windows are sometimes incorrectly re-tiled
Summary: Custom tiled windows are sometimes incorrectly re-tiled
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: Quick Tiling (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.4.4
Platform: Solus Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2025-09-08 11:43 UTC by TraceyC
Modified: 2025-12-02 12:54 UTC (History)
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Description TraceyC 2025-09-08 11:43:38 UTC
SUMMARY
Some custom tiled windows are incorrectly re-tiled when switching virtual desktops, or when other windows are minimized

Setup
Have at least two virtual desktops

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
This can be reproduced with a single display
1. Open Kate and KWrite
2. Tile Kate to the left third with a shortcut (custom tiling via the Mudeer plugin)
3. Tile KWrite to middle third with a shortcut
4. Switch to another virtual desktop, and then back

OBSERVED RESULT
Kate retains its tiling
KWrite is tiled on the right half, rather than how it had been sized / tiled

EXPECTED RESULT
Window size and tiling is unchanged

Another way to reproduce:
This I cannot trigger on a single display, only when I have my laptop docked and connected to an external monitor
1. Open two Firefox windows
2. Custom tile one to the left third
3. Custom tile the other to the middle third
4. Minimize one of the two windows

OBSERVED RESULT
The non-minimized window tiles to take up half the screen

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

Seen on git-master as well as 6.4.4

❯ kinfo
pci id for fd 16: 10de:2520, driver (null)
kmsro: driver missing
Operating System: Solus 4.7
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.15.6-321.current (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® UHD Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
If you do this with Firefox windows, they are also incorrectly re-tiled

This seems similar, but is not the same as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494229