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I have a vertical monitor and want two full-width tiles/zones, but KDE is still trying to snap to a quarter of the screen. What am I doing wrong? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

You have to hold the Shift key while moving a window for it to snap into the tiles you set up. If you just move them normally they have a different snapping behaviour like what you described.

Edit: So as the deleted reply was probably asking, this is how it works in full. If you have the KDE Plasma desktop environment after a certain version (I wanna say 5.6-ish?) you can do the following:

Press Windows+T, or as we Linux nerds like to call it Meta+T, to configure your "tiling zones" on your monitors.
Hold Shift+LeftClick on the title bar of a window to move them into the "tiling zones" you set up.

Discoverability on this sucks (as much of the Plasma desktop does) but it's a pretty cool feature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

any idea how I can divide the display into thirds? I only have the option to split horizontal/vertical which gives me halves...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can change the zone size by dragging the border with the mouse while you are in the editing mode.

Edit: so drag to 1/3 and 2/3 roughly, split the bigger field again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah, that's how I'm doing it now. it bugs me though that it's not exactly 33%...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Know what you mean, would probably be a worthwhile feature request to make on the bug tracker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

thanks for this!