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maniacalmanicmania , (edited )
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I would try a few Plasma based tiling scripts before switching to anything like Sway or i3. You’ll get a good idea of whether it’s for you. Later on if you find you need more control over the tiling you could switch to a dedicated tiling window manager.

I’m using Karousel in Plasma which is scrollable tiling. You can install and enable it like so:

Go to System Settings > Apps & Windows > Window Management > KWin Scripts > select Get New… > In search enter Karousel and wait for it to show up > select Install > select the latest version (as of now karousel-0-9-4.tar.gz).

There is a companion desktop effect that also needs to be installed like so:

Go to System Settings > Apps & Windows > Window Management > Desktop Effects > select Get New… > enter Geometry Change in search > select Install > select the latest version (as of now kwin4-effect-geometry-change-1.3.tar.gz).

Karousel and Geometry Change have configuration options and Karousel also has keyboard shortcuts (view here) which you may need to update to your liking. I don’t have a need to configure anything in Geometry Change as the default animation settings are fine. For Karousel I tend to adjust the various spacing and gaps options along with making sure the shortcuts I want are configured. That link above has a short video of what Karousel looks like in action.

boredsquirrel ,
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Absolutely.

cyborganism ,

When using KDE, press meta-T to activate the equivalent of Windows Power Toys’ Fancy Zones.

You can then set tiling zones and when you drag a window, hold shift at the same time to lock it in one of the zones.

Telorand ,

The word you’re looking for is Desktop Environment (DE). KDE Plasma is one such DE. Distro is the underlying system.

  • i3 has been around forever and has lots of guides on how to customize it. Only downside is it’s X11-only, so as everyone moves to Wayland, X11 support will decrease.
  • Sway is i3+Wayland, though it’s newer, so I dunno how much customization content is out there or whether the i3 tutorials are forward compatible.
  • Hyprland is another popular choice, and it is Wayland-based. Only downside is the project lead is a toxic asshole, despite being a gifted dev.
  • Cosmic is an upcoming DE, so if you’re in no hurry, keep an eye on that one.

To install any of them, search for the project and see if they have an installation guide for your distro. If not look up “how to install <DE> in Fedora.”

boredsquirrel , (edited )
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Cosmic is already more usable than most Window managers, that literally just manage Windows.

I mean, it has apps… and GUI settings…

There is a guy called Ryan Brue that packages all the COSMIC apps. He created a SIG and in the channel there are some COSMIC Devs helping out.

There is a uBlue variant with COSMIC, working pretty great.

COSMIC just breaks KDE Apps a bit. Will have to see if some package may fix them, as they are so themable that missing packages make them use aome shitty fallback theme.

Telorand ,

I know Cosmic is there, but it’s not even in beta. I can’t yet recommend it in good conscience, especially for OP, who is new enough not to know the difference between a distro and a DE.

(And if you’re reading this, OP, that’s nothing to be ashamed of.)

thingsiplay ,

You can easily install and configure a tiling window manager on any distro, so you should not switch an entire distribution and your base because of that. Unless off course you want to, but its not difficult. If you install a tiling window manager from your repository, then read the documentation how to set it up correctly and log out your current user session. Then in the login screen, you should be able to select what window manager or desktop environment you want to use.

But be careful, lot of window managers are still not supported in Wayland and the other way, some of the new window managers are Wayland only. The usual suspects would be probably Sway or Hyprland on Wayland? There is also Qtile, but that is for people who want to configure and write Python source code, as the configuration is in Python language (BTW my favorite tiling window manager, but not for everyone). EndeavourOS used to have a Qtile spin, but they stopped that not long ago.

But if you really must switch the distribution, then there might be a few preconfigured tiling window manager distributions:

jennraeross ,

Distro isn’t important for tiling, just the window manager. I’d start with i3 personally, it’s been around a long time, which means the documentation is fairly plentiful.

Interstellar_1 OP ,
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can I get that on plasma?

boredsquirrel ,
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Dude I recommend you to watch a few Youtube videos about what is a desktop, a window manager and a distro ;)

No, you cant get i3 on Plasma.

troyunrau ,
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Well, you kind of can actually. It just replaces KWin

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