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Bismuth. Making tiling window management easy. On KDE Plasma.

Thanks to this fine person, we have a working Bismuth on Plasma 5.27. It only took the addition of one question mark to the code to bring it to life. Huge kudos to developer. Unfortunately, we will have to build Bismuth from source code. I built a package for Fedora 38, here you go, maybe someone will find it useful! ❤️

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is also Polonium, aiming to be a successor to Bismuth using kwin's native tiling. Haven't used either though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

not so feature-rich and stable yet but gets job done.

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

Yess!! I've been waiting. Thanks for the news

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

It has never stopped working on my machines.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It definitely stopped working on Wayland. Sure it still had basic 50% functionality, but it was very broken. Apparently the patch fixes that! Great news!

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

it is VERYVERY good news. polonium is good but bismuth still three miles ahead. Dev who found way to fix the issue is gagigachaddd