Top Right > Meta+Shift+PageDown Switch Window Focus I mostly use Left and Right but I also use the quadrants of the screen as well Quick Tiling of Windows around the screenĮight Locations for quick tiling around the screen. This is done by going into the Plasma SystemSettings > Shortcuts and selecting the Kwin Component. In order to mimic the tiling features of i3, and I do mean mimic, you have to set the hotkeys. I have not tested this out on any other distribution. Although I believe these features have been in Plasma for several releases, I am currently using KDE Plasma 5.17.4 on openSUSE Tumbleweed. This is the reason that I consider Plasma to be the best desktop available as I can make it work brilliantly for me and I am free to change every aspect of it.

I also believe that I should be open to making adjustments as I see fit. I do however believe that the workflow I choose for me is the best one for me. I don’t believe that any one particular work-flow is better than the other. Everyone thinks differently and works differently.

The way I see it, the desktop you work in should mold itself to how you prefer to work, not the other way around. Here are the changes I made to make my “Desktop Life” a bit more efficient and to manipulate things just a bit more quickly. It was far too ridged for my liking so I wanted to explore adding some tiling features into Plasma but with not losing the benefits of floating windows as well.

There were some things about a tiling desktop that I didn’t like as well. Being able to very quickly split your screen and be able to see information side-by-side, like writing a post and having my collection of pictures beside it is incredibly useful and a productivity enhancer. In my short time of using a tiling window manager, I very quickly became aware of the benefits of quick tiling features on the desktop.

Tiling manager for windows