- Split monitor by into tiles of halves, quarters or thirds, horirzontally or vertically
- Configurable width increase for the middle window when split by thirds
- Configurable gap between windows
- Allows windows to fullscreen onto a portion of the screen
- Soft tiling, allows for tiling and floating windows
- Properly handles horizontal and vertical screen orientations
- Enable sequential button presses to tile vertically by thirds and quarters
- Switch to prefix keys for fullscreen mode to allow fullscreen application of any size
- Support Vertical screens
Under SystemSettings -> Kwin Scripts, you can search for and install Mudeer.
git clone https://github.com/darkstego/Mudeer.git cd Mudeer && make install
Configuration is done through KDE’s Kwin Script Configuration. Find Mudeer under System Settings -> Kwin Scripts and there will be an options button.
When changing the options you need to disable then enable the script for the changes to take effect. I think this is a quirk in KDE scripts.
All Tiling is done with shortcut keys. The default shortcuts allow any tiling combination using 8 keys and the modifier keys. These are best explained through the diagram below.
To tile simply hold the Win (or Super/Meta) key while pressing the corresponding button. The modifiers can be used to tile to the top or bottom half or (Shift) to increase the tile’s size to encompass the neighboring tiling spots.
The default shortcuts were designed to be able to quickly move windows around without the need to drag windows around. They were designed to to follow a logical pattern, so even if you don’t use some of the shortcuts you can quickly remember which button tiles to which location. By picking these shortcut buttons, however, some of these shortcuts will not be enabled unless they are enabled manually through the KDE shortcut menu. This happens when some of those shortcuts overwrite others in KDE.
These shortcuts are just choices I felt would work well, and provide the most flexibilty given a small number of keys. You are free to change them or, if you don’t need all the shortcuts, to disable some and only use the shortcuts you need.
You can see all the shortcuts for this project by searching the global shortcuts settings menu for “mudeer”.
You can use sequential tiling. First enable it from the configuration menu, then you can press two shortcuts in quick succession to first tile horizontally and then vertically. This allows for tiling vertically by thirds and quarters.
When the monitor is in the Vertical orientation then the segementation (quarters and thirds) occur top to bottom instead of left to right maximizing the resolution of the splts along the long edge of the screen. In this orientation the CTRL and ALT modifier keys restricts the windows to the left and right portion of the screen respectively.
There are three prefix keys that can be used to modify the next tile you select with a shortcut.
This removes the gap from the next tile, even when gap is configured. Useful when playing a video in a tile.
This option allows the tile to cover any panel or dock. Useful for games or videos. This can be used to replicate the behaviour of multiple screens dynamically.
When using the the fullscreen prefix, the tiling will split the entire screen area, and not just the workable area (the area left after ignoring the panel). That means each tile will have a slightly different size and position compared do the regulart tiling, which makes mixing fullscreen and non-fullscreen tiles a bit difficult. Especially when the panel resides on the sides. This option allows tilling windows next to fullscreen windows, while still keeping the panel visible.
Below is the list of default shortcuts. Again, Meta in KDE is the Win (or Super) key.
| Shortcut | Default Binding |
|---|---|
| Whole | Meta+f |
| Left Third | Meta+a |
| Center Third | Meta+s |
| Right Third | Meta+d |
| Left Two Thirds | Meta+Shift+a |
| Right Two Thirds | Meta+Shift+d |
| Far Left Quarter | Meta+z |
| Center Left Quarter | Meta+x |
| Center Right Quarter | Meta+c |
| Far Right Quarter | Meta+v |
| Left Half | Meta+Shift+z |
| Left Three Quarters | Meta+Shift+x |
| Center Half | Meta+Shift+s |
| Right Three Quarters | Meta+Shift+c |
| Right Half | Meta+Shift+v |
| Top half modifier | Ctrl+ |
| Bottom half modifier | Alt+ |
| Gapless Prefix | Meta+Shift+f |
| Fullscreen Prefix | Meta+Ctrl+Shift+f |
| Fullscreen Prefix avoiding Panels | Meta+Alt+Shift+f |
For users of Non Ultrawide Monitors this script can be utilized by only mapping shortcuts for the left and right half tiling (and their top/bottom alternatives). This is functionally similar to KDE’s own Quick Tile option with the added flexibility of having an adjustable gap between the windows.
Users on Plasma versions <5.23 check the following fix to get configuration menus to work.
Disable and then re-enable the script to get it the settings to register.
There might be a collision with existing KDE shortcuts. Try to search for the buttons in the shorcut menu in systemsettings to find the collision.
I would really like to know what people like and dislike about this project. Please provide feedback here.