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mcaceres

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Registered: 2016-01-10

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Quick Tile Window Behavior in KDE

Currently the Quick Tile Window shortcuts (left, right, and top/bottom left/right) all snap windows to a custom grid (I think it takes the current size of the open windows as reference for the outline of a 2 by 2 grid, but honestly it feels fairly arbitrary). It additionally groups tiled windows together for re-sizing (so if I re-size any of the tiled windows, all other tiled windows adjust).

Does anyone know how  to disable this? I recently updated to KDE 5.27.3 and I assume it's related to the new tiling manager (but I'm not certain, since I've already turned that off and restarted to no avail). I've built up a fair amount of muscle memory ordering my windows around the old Quick Tile behavior and my computer is suddenly very hard to use.

PS: If I restart kwin_x11, the old behavior resumes for about a minute before Quick Tile continues with the new behavior.

Neonvieh

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Registered: 2015-01-01

Posts: 17

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Re: Quick Tile Window Behavior in KDE

/push

I have the exact same problem but have not found a way to fix this! Any news from your side?

Neonvieh

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Registered: 2015-01-01

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Re: Quick Tile Window Behavior in KDE

Update: I found out that this is the new "custom tiling" feature which was introduced in 5.27. As a result I downgraded to 5.26 and will ignore updates the plasma group. My version is fixed at 5.26.5-1 and it behaves normally.
To downgrade to a specific version:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_L … cific_date
To ignore plasma from future upgrades modify /etc/pacman.conf at the specific line:

#/etc/pacman.conf

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   = 
IgnoreGroup = plasma

Last edited by Neonvieh (2023-04-03 01:08:09)

ifernando

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Registered: 2022-09-20

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Re: Quick Tile Window Behavior in KDE

Executing the shortcut twice (e.g. pressing Meta-Left twice) restore the window.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: Quick Tile Window Behavior in KDE

The OP has not been back since April, so I am going to consider this thread abandoned and close it now.