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Can KDE Tile Windows Like PopOS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by njordomir@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Linux for a over a decade, but haven't used anything Gnomey in a while. I gave PopOS another try the other day because I needed a simple distro to put on a home PC for my partner to use. This is the most usable Gnome distro I have ever found!

I won't be switching myself anytime soon, but I really like the way the tiles on Cosmic expand to always keep the screen full. I know KDE can tile using shortcuts, but have ant of you come across something on KDE that autoresizes the tiles like Pop does?

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Cosmic runs its own window manager called cosmic-comp, whereas Gnome uses Mutter. The tiling is baked into the Cosmic window manager, whereas you'd need to use an extension to get the same functionality on Gnome.

Glad to hear you're liking it, though! While I currently use Gnome with the PaperWM extension, Mutter is frustratingly behind on some current WM improvements (without good reason, IMO).

If you enjoy the tiling aspects, check out similar projects like Niri, as their window management shares some of the same codebase! Lots of neat projects out there, these days.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

By “shares some of the same codebae”, I assume that you mean both COSMIC and Niri use the Smithay Wayland support library? Or that both Niri and GNOME use xdg-desktop-portal-gnome?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

Smithay, yes

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting that you are using PaperWM but recommending Niri.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

It's in my plan to switch, actually. The only reason I haven't is because I need to make sure I know how to use certain Pipewire inputs with the window manager. I've seen that it does work, but I need to know how to do it myself before I make the switch.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is not about GNOME...

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago

I intentionally did not answer their question, because I don't know. What I addressed was their misconception that Cosmic is based upon Gnome.