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Sergey
Asked: 2011-10-26 13:02:06 +0800 CST

How do I control window placement in KDE with keyboard?

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Is it possible in KDE to set up keyboard shortcuts similar to what Unity uses for window placement - i.e. Alt - Ctrl - Numpad 6 to make a window occupy the left half of the screen etc.?

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  1. More precisely:

    1. System Settings -> Shortcuts and Gestures -> Global Keyboard Shortcuts
    2. KDE component: KWin ▼
    3. Quick Tile Window to the Left etc.

    There is also somewhat interesting Enable/Disable Tiling, which defaults to Alt+Shift+F11. Unfortunately I could not figure out how to move tile a window so that it consumes top or bottom of the screen, but other hotkeys can be used to achieve that.

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  2. Best Answer

    The KDE global keyboard shortcuts: System Settings > Shortcuts and Gestures > Global Keyboard Shortcuts. Pick the KWIN as the KDE component. You could set the keyboard shortcuts to the window position/tiling etc...

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  3. I was looking for a way to mimic the Microsoft Windows 7 window placement via keyboard including the windows (start) key.

    Similar to the other answers I went:

    1. Component:
      System Settings
      -> Shortcuts
      --> Global Shortcuts
      ---> System Settings Module (KDE Plasma Version: 5.9.5)
      ---> KWin (KDE Plasma Version: 5.9.12)
    2. Action: Quick Tile Window to the {Left|Right} etc.
    3. Used key-combinations: Meta+Left, Meta+Right

    here: the meta key is the name for the MS Windows start key.

    (KDE Plasma Version: 5.9.5)

    (KDE Plasma Version: 5.9.12)

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