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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

any idea how I can divide the display into thirds? I only have the option to split horizontal/vertical which gives me halves...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You can change the zone size by dragging the border with the mouse while you are in the editing mode.

Edit: so drag to 1/3 and 2/3 roughly, split the bigger field again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

yeah, that's how I'm doing it now. it bugs me though that it's not exactly 33%...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Know what you mean, would probably be a worthwhile feature request to make on the bug tracker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

thanks for this!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@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'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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