KDE tiling manager similar to GNOME tiling assistant?

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For anyone who’s used GNOME, you may be familiar with the GNOME tiling assistant extension. I personally find it to be the best experience I’ve had with tiling windows on any WM or even compared to microsoft windows.

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This question kinda relies on you having used tiling assistant. I’ve heard of kronkite, but I didn’t find it as good as the GNOME one. If I can find a very similar means of tiling in KDE, I might have a nicer experience when using plasma. Does anyone have suggestions of a plugin to install to get very close to tiling assistant?

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You have a similar feature is supported out of the box, through shortcuts:

Drag a window then old shift: you can position the window in a screen “zone”. Then release the mouse, to set the window to the zone.

Meta + T to define the zones.

(This is not what is a “full-tilling” is)

Full context:

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quick tiles does this out of the box, no need to even drag the window (tho you can).

meta+arrow to assign a window to an edge

meta+arrow+arrow to assign a window to a corner

if you have a window arrangement like yours where one is in the upper right, on is in the lower left and one is on the left edge of the screen… you can grab the central intersection and drag the boundaries exactly as you show.

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@meven and @skyfishgoo
Your suggestions only half-way solve the problem. They tile nicely, but I want to have it offer ability to re-tile what isn’t tiled like shown in the gif.

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I’m in luck, there exists exactly what I’m looking for called kde snap assistant. The down side: it only works on plasma 5. I’ll have to stick with kubuntu 24.04 until further notice. I’ll mark this as solved for any future readers.