🌈 Bismuth

Arrange your windows automatically and switch between them using keyboard shortcuts. All of that with different layouts and without a complicated setup of classic tiling window managers (i3, dwm or XMonad). Just install the script on any KDE Plasma powered Linux distribution and enjoy your computing! 🦾

This is a fork of Krohnkite. The fork was made, because the old project seems to be unmaintained.

🗺️ Goals

Project goals are the following:

Provide full-fledged tiling window manager experience in KDE Plasma with minimal effort on user side
Wayland support

🌟 Features

Automatic window tiling
- Dynamically tile windows, rather than manually placing each.
- Floating windows
Fully integrates into KWin features, including:
- Multi-screen
- Activities & Virtual desktop
- Basic window management (minimize, fullscreen, switching, etc)
Multiple Layout Support
- Tiling layout
- Monocle layout
- Desktop-friendly layouts (Spread, Stair)

🔧 Installation

Install script via script:

npm install # Installs dependencies for building
npm run script-install

To uninstall:

npm run script-uninstall

Enabling User-Configuration

It is reported that a manual step is required to enable user configuration of KWin scripts. This is a limitation of KWin scripting.

To enable configuration, you must perform the following in command-line:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/kservices5/
ln -s ~/.local/share/kwin/scripts/bismuth/metadata.desktop ~/.local/share/kservices5/bismuth.desktop

A configuration button will appear in KWin Scripts in System Settings.

To make changes effective, the script must be reactivated:

On KWin Scripts dialog, untick Bismuth
Apply
tick Bismuth
Apply

Tweaks

Proceed to the TWEAKS section.

⌨️ Default Key Bindings

Key	Action
Meta + J	Focus Down/Next
Meta + K	Focus Up/Previous
Meta + H	Left
Meta + L	Right

Meta + Shift + J	Move Down/Next
Meta + Shift + K	Move Up/Previous
Meta + Shift + H	Move Left
Meta + Shift + L	Move Right

Meta + I	Increase
Meta + D	Decrease
Meta + F	Toggle Floating
Meta + \	Cycle Layout

Meta + Return	Set as Master

Meta + T	Use Tile Layout
Meta + M	Use Monocle Layout
unbound	Use Spread Layout
unbound	Use Stair Layout

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