3.7 KiB
Kröhnkite
A dynamic tiling extension for KWin.
Kröhnkite is mainly inspired by dwm from suckless folks, and aims to be "simple" in both development and usage.
Build & Install
You can install Kröhnkite in multiple ways.
The simplest method would be:
make install
This will automatically build and install kwinscript package. Note that you can
manually build package file using make package
. The generated package file
can be imported from "KWin Script" dialog in "System Settings".
If you don't want to install the script, but still want to try, you can:
make run
make stop
to temporarily load (and unload) the script to KWin. You may also want to restart KWin w/:
kwin_x11 --replace
New instance will replace the current one, and print debugging message(i.e.
console.log
) to terminal. This is useful for testing and debugging.
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 |
Tips
Removing Title Bars
System Setting
>Application Style
>Window Decorations
- Click
Configure Breeze
inside the preview. Window-Specific Overrides
tab >Add
button- Enter the following:
Regular expression to match
:.*
- Check
Hide window titel bar
(Note: not all decorations support this feature.)
Changing Border Colors
Changing the color of borders makes it easier to identify the currently focused window. This is quite an essential if title bars are removed.
- Open
~/.config/kdeglobals
with your favoir editors. (i.e. Kate, Vim, Nano) - Scroll down and find
[WM]
section - Below the section, append the followings:
frame=61,174,233
: set the border color of active window to RGB(61,174,233)inactiveFrame=239,240,241
: set the border color of inactive window to RGB(239,240,241)
- You must restart your session to see changes. (i.e. re-login, reboot)
(Note: the RGB values presented here is for the default Breeze theme. Feel free to change these values. You can use KColorChooser to pick colors from the screen.)