KDE tiling window manager (Plasma 6 + Krohnkite)

[Mr_Orange]

I wanted to try a tiling window manager to see if it was right for me but didn't want to go through the hassle of something like Hyprland because of the time cost for a simple quick trial. So I ignored them until I came across a video saying someone has forked Krohnkite for KDE Plasma 6. A quick trip to the AUR later and it's an easy install and integrated well. It's easy to disable via KWin and also configured via KWin/global shortcuts in the gui which was another hurdle for a quick trial.

If you're in the same boat as me then I can highly recommend it. I'm currently going through the config to add floating exceptions and see what the options there are. Anyone have any twm tips?

 

[Throrik]

Nothing for your specific one, I'm still on X with i3 on Debian, and even i3 on OpenBSD so I'm stuck in the late 90s in terms of releases - but I would suggest looking at things like vimify plugins for your browsers etc, so that you can truly enjoy the mouse-free experience.

 

[Mr_Orange]

It turns out that tiling window managers are not for me. Glad I used this to check because going through creating a Hyprland config would have been such a waste of time.

 

[Throrik]

Yeah they're not for everyone - it takes quite a while to get used to them - I kept GNOME installed when I was learning i3 for a while, so that when I got annoyed at it I could change back to a normal one. Now I struggle to use GNOME.