Keyboard shortcuts for new tiling feature

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Hi all.

Coming from Windows and FancyZones, I’m a huge fan of the new tiling feature added in Plasma 5.27. However one issue I am facing is the ability to bind keyboard shortcuts to snapping windows into the new predefined tile zones.

I’m aware this may not be an existing feature, however from what I have read online, the new tiling implementation is supposed to have some sort of API that be consumed with KWin scripts. I’m totally happy to get my hands dirty if someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance.

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You can generally snap them in place by dragging them while holding shift (just in case that is what you or someone who is stumbling on this mean).
I would also be interested if you found general keyboard shortcuts here, or even a way to overwrite the windows+arrow key shortcuts to use the defined zones instead of the default half/quarter behavior.

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Did anything ever come of this? I would be very interested in shortcuts for this tiling option, or a native ability to have gaps with the zones shortcuts.

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+1

I use :window: plus one of the arrow keys to quickly shove windows to the left or right all the time, but sometimes custom tiling (rather than half the screen size) would be more useful. Ideally. :window: :arrow_up: and one of the arrow keys should do this, but there is no option to bind these keys to the custom tiling functions.

My mouse has a tendency to hide somewhere :wink: