tiling editor not starting

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Hi
I can’t make tiling editor to show up.
I’m on KDE 6.3.5 / X11, Gentoo.
I don’t see anything about tiling in Settings->Window Management->Desktop Effects.
I see “Toggle Tiles Editor” in Keyboard->Shortcuts->KWin, pressing this combination does nothing.
I can see 3 pre-arranged tiles when shift-dragging my windows.
Tiles editor works from a different account.

My ~/.config/kwinrc has this snippet. It comes back if I remove it and restart

[Tiling]
padding=4

[Tiling][708e0b2b-28a7-53c4-a530-df3b1d4f2c0a]
tiles={"layoutDirection":"horizontal","tiles":[{"width":0.25},{"width":0.5},{"width":0.25}]}

[Tiling][e293dffc-3a80-5768-a238-836a90a9f06c]
tiles={"layoutDirection":"horizontal","tiles":[{"width":0.25},{"width":0.5},{"width":0.25}]}

Any ideas?

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hi, welcome.

does the meta+t shortcut work on a new user acct?

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Hi. Yes, it does work for a new or simply for any different account

4

then you borked your settings somehow.

you can try this method of trouble shooting to narrow down the issue, if you can’t restore your settings back to a time when i did work.

# brute force troubleshooting...
mv ~/.config ~/.configBORKED
# logout and log back in again to force plasma to recreate the folder with default settings
dolphin --split ~/.config ~/.configBORKED
# copy back half of the BORKED folder contents at a time and relog to see if issue returns
# if it does, then delete the folder again, relog, and only copy half of that previous half
# repeat until the culprit is found, then finally, copy back everything BUT that culprit bit
5

found it. had this in my ~/.config/kwinrc:

[Plugins]
tileseditorEnabled=false
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weird that is even a setting … any idea how it became false?

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No idea.. this installation is quite old though, and definitely went through the Plasma 5->6 migration, could somehow be an artifact of that?

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maybe… glad you could sort it.