alvesvaren / polonium

Tiling window manager for KWin 5.27

Home Page:https://zeroxoneafour.github.io/polonium/

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polonium

An (unofficial) successor to Bismuth built on KWin 5.27.

The descendant of autotile.

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wayland: supported PRs Welcome ko-fi

features

  • Works in Wayland Plasma 5.27 and up
  • Actual tiling backend using binary trees and decent enough code where you can mod in your own
  • Edit tile sizes with the integrated KWin GUI
  • Move and tile windows with your mouse and keyboard
  • Set layouts independently of desktop
  • In early beta so comes pre-packaged with bugs

limitations

  • X11 has been tested but is not officially supported
  • Electron apps cannot be moved around and may result in KWin crashing, these apps include vscode, spotify, slack, discord, etc
  • Probably slow due to poor optimization

building

Requires tsc, npm, and kpackagetool5

Commands -

  • Build/Install/Clean - make
  • Build - make build
  • Install/Reinstall - make install
  • Clean build - make clean
  • Clean build and target - make cleanall

license

  • Majority of this project is MIT licensed, please bum my code if you can use to make something better. Make sure to give credit though!

name

Came from a comment on my old script, you can find the script and comment here

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Tiling window manager for KWin 5.27

https://zeroxoneafour.github.io/polonium/

License:MIT License


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