How to start, arrange windows, and complete a Plasma 6.4 Tiling session.

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Please help me find the Plasma 6.4 Announcement and accompanying video that popped up when 6.4 was recently installed as a DNF update.

I found in reddit that Meta+T will start a tiling session. But there are no instructions after Meta+T, only some lines drawn on the screen. Where can I find a step-by-step set of instructions or a video on how to use Tiling?

All I’m really looking for is for KDE to save and remember my windows, their position, and if a window has Konsole in it, to remember which directory was current. This is how my legacy Plasma 5 system works on my soon-to-obsolete Fedora 25 system.

Thanks for any help you might offer.

Bruce Bogaard

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hold down the shift key while dragging a window.

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Thanks for your response. There is no window visible to drag because the lines which appeared after Meta+T blot out the entire desk top.

Surely the developers of the Tiling feature must have documented how to use it. I was hoping someone knows where the Plasma 6.4 Announcement can be found, assuming it would point me to a set of instructions on how to use the Tiling feature.

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I found a Youtube video that shows someone who has mastered the Tiling tool.

 www.youtube.com /watch ?v= 6B_wnjP7QKo

I have inserted spaces in the URL above.

Sadly, the person in the video races thru his presentation so fast that it’s not possible to see how or what he is doing. Still, the video is very encouraging because it shows that it is possible to learn how to Tile!

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meta-t is just for setting up the tiles how you want them.

i’m talking about using the shift key while just dragging any window on your desktop.

try it, grab this window by the title bar and move the mouse… now hit the shift key

it will highlight where the window will be tiled.. then just let go of the mouse.

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Thanks Again, for your response. I just couldn’t connect “moving a window” and seeing no layout of the tiling.

The tiling was, for me, just a means to an end, that being getting KDE Plasma to save my session and restore it when I next logged in. Alas, Wayland restore session still does not work, even if one takes the time to set up tiling.

According to KDE Blogs, blogs kde org, someone named David Edmundson has “implemented support” for Wayland session restore in Qt 6.10, but that’s only the first step of many to get session restore to work .

Thanks again for taking the time to help me see the whole tiling picture.

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