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KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.

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This week in KDE: Double-click by default | Aug 2023
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one thing i would totally recommend for kde is bismuth https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/

it's tiling for kde and it works REALLY well.
Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux | May 2023
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Plasma 5.27 added in some native tiling support. There are also some kwin scripts available to add tiling to it.

https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth

https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite
This week in KDE: “More Wayland fixes” | Mar 2023
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I've used bspwm for many years now, and recently started experimenting with KDE on NixOS.

I have to say, the Plasma desktop is very polished and mostly works as I want it to. The amount of knobs I can tweak to set it up just as I want is not far off from minimalistic WMs.

For window tiling, Bismuth[1] looks interesting, though I've yet to give it a try.

There are some major issues, though, like random freezes and the compositor failing sometimes, which might be caused by Intel drivers, but I'm hoping that switching to Wayland might resolve it.

I'd really like this to be my main productivity environment, as when it works, the experience is pretty slick.

[1]: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth
Revisiting KDE | Jan 2023
one thing i missed from modern kde was tiling window management. but bismuth enables that. and it's absolutely great, with a ton of key bindings you can set yourself and some good mouse support if you need.

https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/

KDE beats macOS hands down | Nov 2022
funny enough, i just moved back to linux after using macOS for almost a year.

i decided to install KDE just to see what was going on and holy damn, it's SO GOOD. the only thing i installed (and configured) was a tiling window manager (bismuth https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/) and that was it.

everything is working perfectly, it looks great and it's suuuper smooth.

KDE: A Nice Tiling Environment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE | Feb 2022
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You may want to have a look at Bismuth https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth . It's the successor to Khronkite.
KDE: A Nice Tiling Environment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE | Feb 2022
You are using less maintained Tiling extension. Try Bismuth : https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth It is much better , properly coded and actively developed with proper features.
KDE: A Nice Tiling Environment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE | Feb 2022
For tiling, Krohnkite[1] is what I use. It integrates with KWin wonderfully, provides a ton of layouts and entries in the default system shortcut settings to set keybindings.

For those more graphically oriented, there is also Bismuth[2] which seems cool.

1: https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite

2: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth

Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment | Jan 2022
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There is krohnkite but I recently read development was halted and there was a new more favourable one. I've bookmarked it somewhere but I'll check!

Edit: this is the one: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth

There's also kwin-tiling https://github.com/kwin-scripts/kwin-tiling

Not sure which is best tbh. I have yet to try them