bismuth VS Mudeer

What level are you interested in scripting? In KDE Plasma you can interact with the desktop UI via JS: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/scripting/

And then for something more sophisticated there are extensions like https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth.

It does all feel a little disorganized/wild-west-y compared to say, a .vimrc with a list of plugins and bindings, which is something that makes a system like Nix (or a fully containerized DE of some kind) appealing

It had, but they are all dead until ported to the new kde 6.

https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/issues/471#issuecom...

This is what I used. I found no good replacement for it and that is what made me switch to hyprland.

one thing i would totally recommend for kde is bismuth https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/

it's tiling for kde and it works REALLY well.

Take a look at a tiling window solution. I'm currently using bismuthwith gives similar arrangement to what you're looking for and helps massively with productivity when working on an ultrawide

As a good halfway house you could do worse than KDE with Bismuth (https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth), which is an add-in that will give you great tiling capability, fully controllable via the keyboard. Couple this with KDE native virtual desktops and you have a pretty decent tiling window manager.

Plasma 5.27 added in some native tiling support. There are also some kwin scripts available to add tiling to it.

https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth

Not-good stuff: This tiling is very incomplete. It doesn't allow you to snap everything to your tiles at once, it doesn't support different tiles per virtual screen/workspace and, perhaps more importantly, with that addition and Plasma 6 on the way, compatibility with Bismuth and similar addons is getting lost.

Since you are already using KDE, you can very easily try how much you like tiling: just install bismuth: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth It's a plasma add-on that enables tiling in KDE. If you don't like tiling, just disable the plugin again and uninstall bismuth.

No, it doesn't have that. Here is the list of layouts.

No I was talking about Bismuth which was amazing and actively maintained but due to kwin updates it's not working and is apparently not going to be updated

The only tiling program that seems to do this is mudeer but it requires pretty complex shortcut keys. I wish it would be used in other programs because it's the only thing I'd want tiling for.

With KDE, I am using Mudeer KWin scripts: https://github.com/darkstego/Mudeer

Mudeer

While using Google to get some links I found Mudeer, apparently very similar to UltrawideWindows but more true to a tiling environment on top of Plasma, so I may investigate that later. Mudeer claims to tile full screen applications, which UltrawideWindows does not do, so I already see a benefit. But then I have to rebind ALL THOSE DAMN KEYS lol...

Can you tell me what happens when you fullscreen, like with F11, a tiled program? Does it pop out of the tile and fill up the screen? The only script I've found that keeps it contained is mudeer but it requires some insane hotkeys to do so, and it doesn't work if you just use the tiled program's fullscreen command. I don't remember if it was fancyzones or an asus utility but I loved that feature when I used windows.

I use this to split my ultrawide, but it works via keyboard shortcuts, not dragging: https://github.com/darkstego/Mudeer

I used Mudeer in wayland. The only issue I had was Revolt launched as a webapp through my browser ignoring it. I combined it with the new script, Exquisite where revolt actually worked with Exquisite. I am back on X11 however do to a few unrelated issues.

In case someone asks, I use Mudeer window tiling window script which is a godsend for an ultrawide panel.