Firstly, the tiling system is really cool, and I’m enjoying it a lot. But there’s one thing I’m really missing. I’d like to be able to place a window across multiple tiles at the same time.
To explain my use case: on the right side of my ultrawide I’ve split the screen vertically into two zones, but fairly often I only need a single large window on that side instead of two separate ones. It would be great if there was a way to temporarily merge tiles or span a window across them.
From what I remember, FancyZones in PowerToys on Windows offers something similar, holding Shift for tiling and adding Ctrl to place the window across multiple zones.
Is this something that could be considered, or maybe there’s already a way I haven’t found yet?
it sounds like you are using the Meta+T custom tiling zone where you can split tiles and make custom zones.
there is currently no way to span multiple zones without changing the tiling in Meta+T.
however, plasma also comes with a quick tiling feature using Meta+Arrow keys that would, in your example, would tile a window to one half of the screen instead of using the custom tiles.
it can also quick tile to one corner (1/4 of the screen) by using two arrow keys
i would suggest trying to see if you can integrate that feature into your workflow and see how you like it.
This was the main reason I moved to using Krohnkite for tiling in KDE Plasma, even though it’s probably overkill.
I tend to like to have one maximized application per monitor and virtual desktop. But occasionally I want them to tile next to each other. I tried the native tiling, and just the maximize behaviour, but something that I liked with the native tiling was being able to have window gaps between the panels and windows. With maximize, those gaps went away.
And it was weird, in that I could create a single tile using the native tiling, but only on my secondary monitor, not my primary one.
For me, switching to Krohnkite and using the monocle layout solved the majority of my issues (although it’s not entirely bug-free).