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submitted 2 weeks ago by danjay@lemmy.world to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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[-] Muehe@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You have to hold the Shift key while moving a window for it to snap into the tiles you set up. If you just move them normally they have a different snapping behaviour like what you described.

Edit: So as the deleted reply was probably asking, this is how it works in full. If you have the KDE Plasma desktop environment after a certain version (I wanna say 5.6-ish?) you can do the following:

  1. Press Windows+T, or as we Linux nerds like to call it Meta+T, to configure your "tiling zones" on your monitors.
  2. Hold Shift+LeftClick on the title bar of a window to move them into the "tiling zones" you set up.

Discoverability on this sucks (as much of the Plasma desktop does) but it's a pretty cool feature.

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

thanks for this!

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

SHIFT just does full vertical snaps, which on a vertical monitor isn't too useful. Is there a different combo for horizontal? I couldn't seem to find it.

[-] ulfi@troet.cafe 0 points 2 weeks ago

@ikidd @Muehe
Please do a bugreport at
https://bugs.kde.org/

PS: which plasma Version do.you use?

#kde #KDEPlasma

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Once I figured it out it seems to work as expected.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How do you get into that tiling config? I found it at one time but now I can't seem to figure out how to bring it up.

Edit: found it, Meta-T.

And then shift dragging works for snapping.

[-] Muehe@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I see you figured it out. Will add an explanation to my post as well, if you hadn't deleted your reply I would have answered that instead. :)

[-] qkalligula@my-place.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

@danjay have your cursor snap like at the middle - i think it is like 'bro is real low so he wants to snap down in this corner, right'

[-] danjay@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

If I snap it in the middle it fills the entire vertical height and half the horizontal width, which is the opposite of how I have the tiles set up.

[-] 4oreman@lemy.lol -1 points 2 weeks ago

you are trying to use a feature that isnt finished yet ; like activites, or seperate wallpaper for each desktop

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