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The last versions of KDE Plasma 5 offered tiling windows as an option, and it could be configured to be used only with the keyboard, like a tiling WM. However it was not so polished (I was waiting it to be more usable) and I kept my KDE + XMonad configuration.

However, after Plasma 6 that option was missing, and I my KDE + XMonad setup doesn't work anymore (perhaps I need to adapt it but I didn't have time to do that so far). Also, Wayland doesn't help: using a desktop environment with other window manager only works on X11.

Does someone know what happened to tiling on Plasma 6?

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They ditched the existing stuff which were handled by third party software and started implementing new tiling functionality from scratch. It's a good faith effort to embrace tiling natively but this change meant they caused all existing solutions to break without providing anywhere near the same functionality. Hopefully they or 3rd parties will fix this in the future.

I hope so. I liked my KDE + XMonad setup, but picom really made my PC slow. A 100% KDE solution would be perfect, as I'm not a XMonad power user

I just switched from sway to KDE + Kröhnkite. That might be an option.

According to the reddit comments I've seen, there aren't any plans to expand tiling functionality much beyond what it currently is in KDE.

Even if that's the case, the tiling "primitives" (I don't know if that's the right word) for 3rd parties to leverage is there.

By the way khronkite was forked a bunch of times to create things like Bismuth which isn't supported in plasma6 anymore. Are you sure khronkite itself works? Are you using kde5 ? Or this fork https://github.com/anametologin/krohnkite ?

Yeah, I'm using that fork. I also tried Polonium, but I had regular issues with it not resizing windows when other windows were moved/closed.

I don't think the built-in tiling in Plasma was ever meant to go mucher deeper than what's in Windows. You're still gonna need to use extensions if you want full tiling, I think.

There are two KWin scripts that can be used to add tiling functionality into Plasma 6, which are Kröhnkite and Polonium. Not sure which of the two is better. If you want to use a window manager separate from KWin, I believe i3 still works.

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