Window placement: WinSplit Revolution -like application for Linux (KDE)?

Question

Hello Everyone,

What is the WinSplit Revolution -like application for Linux (KDE)? Or maybe there is a functionality in KDE I am missing?

Thanks and Happy New Year!

Answer 1

It's not really a programming related question, I guess.

Anyhow...there seems to be a plugin for compiz-fusion called grid, which according to the author is based off of the functionality WinSplit Revolution provides.

Answer 2

Tiling is typically a function of the window manager. KWin does not do tiling to my knowledge. There are numerous tiling managers out there though:

• dwm (C) (( also, what I prefer due to simplicity ))
• xmonad (haskell)
• awesome (i think lua, based off dwm)
• wmii (C) (( "big brother" to dwm ))

Also, i dont know if this is rumor or not, but I have heard a couple times that Openbox will be getting tiling functionality. You can run a KDE desktop with openbox as the WM. This will allow you to have tiling + a desktop-ish environment

But yea.. not really programming related