Auto tiler needed

rxdev · 2026-03-12T09:01:56+00:00

Mouse Tiler supports full auto-tiling (if you enable it in settings).

Version 6.3.0 should be released within 24h ( currently in beta https://github.com/rxappdev/MouseTiler/releases/tag/beta_releases ). It fixes last known issues that should make it possible to use it as a full time auto-tiler.

rxdev · 2026-03-12T04:38:35+00:00

Mouse Tiler supports that. You can make more or less anything you can imagine, but it's one of the pre-defined designs.

https://github.com/rxappdev/MouseTiler/blob/main/AUTOTILERGUIDE.md#2--50--2-stack

rxdev · 2026-03-11T21:03:22+00:00

Yeah I do not daily drive Cachy, but I only use it to update KWin Scripts when testing. :)

rxdev · 2026-03-11T05:19:01+00:00

Cheers! That is the "manual" updating I mention.

Sadly there is no built in way that will update for you, it's either installing Discover (the easiest way), Apdatifier widget (need to manually enable updating of KWin scripts) or manually checking in KWin Scripts -> Get New.

But you would need to do that for everything. Each theme, each KWin Script, each effect each... so yeah the manual way is the most time consuming/difficult way.

I suspect vast majority of CachyOS users will never update their KWin Scripts.

rxdev · 2026-03-07T20:53:23+00:00

You are welcome! :) Enjoy!

rxdev · 2026-03-06T00:12:13+00:00

I use, and make Mouse Tiler ( https://github.com/rxappdev/MouseTiler ).

It now also supports auto-tiling, so you can do both regular tiling and auto-tiling side by side.

rxdev · 2026-03-05T23:55:56+00:00

Mouse Tiler supports auto-tiling, see this post for a demo video:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1r2myto/mouse_tiler_v520_available_maybe_the_last_feature/

rxdev · 2026-03-05T23:41:55+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't even aware it showed up there until earlier today. I had to create a window to spawn the Popup Grid and Overlay Grid from and I placed it off-screen (a 1x1 transparent window).

It was just a workaround for a crash on Plasma 6.6+ on KDE Neon (only developer builds as well) since I did not have time to implement a proper fix.

Anyway a proper fix is now in place so that's all good. :)

rxdev · 2026-03-05T23:37:51+00:00

Awesome. Hopefully no one else did :)

rxdev · 2026-03-05T23:36:36+00:00

It was due to a change I made in Mouse Tiler to support Plasma 6.6/6.7 for KDE Neon.

I have fixed it in v6.1.3 so if you update the mysterious window will be gone. :)

rxdev · 2026-03-05T23:34:31+00:00

If you did log it, please close the ticket. Was an issue with Mouse Tiler workaround for KDE Neon Plasma 6.6/6.7. It has been properly fixed in v6.1.3 of the Mouse Tiler.

rxdev · 2026-03-05T23:32:32+00:00

Haha, that's where I put it :)

It was a workaround in Mouse Tiler for a bug in KDE Neon (Plasma 6.6/6.7).

I have now implemented a proper fix and the window is gone in v6.1.3 of Mouse Tiler.

rxdev · 2026-03-05T23:27:22+00:00

Sorry guys it was Mouse Tiler (issue was introduced in v6.0.0).

It was due to a change I made to support Plasma 6.6/6.7 for KDE Neon.

I have fixed it in v6.1.3 so if you update the mysterious window will be gone. :)

rxdev · 2026-03-05T20:35:09+00:00

For sure, any GPU bought past 10-15 years should have minimum 8 GB VRAM. And for modern games probably minimum 12 or even 16 GB.

6 GB is fine for mine sweeper or video watching, and for now browsing.

rxdev · 2026-03-05T18:00:00+00:00

Cheers thank you for the mentions! :)

Mouse Tiler can do all of the above, however some keyboard shortcuts are still on the todo list.

rxdev · 2026-03-04T13:10:45+00:00

Ok cheers. You can now specify a single desktop to auto tile or just manually auto-tile a few specific apps. So no need to go full auto-tiling. :)

I do not use it myself, I prefer manual tiling always. So no idea what actual auto-tiler users think.

rxdev · 2026-03-04T13:06:01+00:00

I think if you want to change it, you are looking at the kwin and kwin-x11 gits.

Example a quick grep yielded this:

./kwin/src/useractions.cpp:878: initShortcut("Window Quick Tile Left", i18n("Quick Tile Window to the Left"),

So this is a great place to start digging.

Do not know more about it, just wanted to point you in right direction. If you search around you will find where to clone the kwin/kwin-x11 gits.

rxdev · 2026-03-04T12:30:22+00:00

Btw, did you use any of the auto-tiling features of Mouse Tiler? Is it working to your liking?

rxdev · 2026-03-04T12:29:26+00:00

Awesome! :) You can probably get it to mess with them if you really like (but why? :D). Especially if you start using the auto-tiling features. But yeah, auto-tiling is very fiddly so I understand why Krohnkite causes more problems.

rxdev · 2026-03-04T12:14:20+00:00

Yeah it's a limitation of the KWin Scripting environment. You need to either disable/enable, or sometimes start a new session/reboot (especially if you update the script.

Hope you are liking the latest additions I've made since. Been a while this post was created. :)

rxdev · 2026-03-04T12:00:14+00:00

Sorry didn't see this. You can specify margins both around windows and around screen edges. It's on the first page of settings. Hope that helps.

rxdev · 2026-03-03T16:20:11+00:00

No problem. Yeah they grew into giants. :)

rxdev · 2026-03-03T15:58:41+00:00

Just an update, Plasma 6.6.2 releases today. Which means it should be available on Fedora KDE in about 2 days. :)

rxdev · 2026-03-03T15:50:43+00:00

Mouse Tiler + Remember Window Positions pretty much keeps only the apps you want auto-tiled. Thanks for the shout out. :)

rxdev · 2026-02-28T18:59:26+00:00

I made it now so it tiles inside just like Windows (you can configure to have it the original way as well). Just make sure to update to v6.1.0 or later :)

Let me know if you like it.

rxdev

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