Works great on Kubuntu 24.04.1 / Kwin 5.27.11 / KDE 5

[holocronweaver]

Just wanted to mention that obtaining the Polonium Kwin script directly from the Kwin Scripts -> Get New Scripts menu works like a charm on Kubuntu 24.04.1 which was recently released (uses KDE 5 / Kwin 5.27.11 / X11).

Importantly, unlike Krohnkite, Firefox tiles just fine. Sadly Bismuth no longer seems to work on Kwin 5.27.11, and the fork of Krohnkite dropped Kwin 5 support in favor of Kwin 6.

For now Polonium is the only tiling solution I know of that fully functions on Kubuntu 24.04.

Love the b-tree, monocle and half layouts (latter works like the dwm master-stack layout).

Kubuntu 24.10 now has KDE 6, unclear when or if that will be backported to 24.04. If/when it does hopefully Polonium will keep working. I don't need anything fancy from a tiling setup, just stability and the few essential layout engines.

[dekiesel]

Thanks for the info! I was about to give up finding a possibility to tile my windows on kwin 5.27!

[holocronweaver]

A few updates:

• Polonium was stable for a few days, but as weeks go on I am seeing occasional odd behavior. Reboots fix it, so when using KDE I tend to reboot daily, rather than weekly as I typically do with other DE.
• the Ubuntu package for Bismuth reportedly works on KDE 5.27.11 after a small fix, but I could not get keyboard shortcuts working though it seems others have: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bismuth/+bug/2072165

[dekiesel]

I can second that. It's definitely janky sometimes, but it beats resizing windows manually.

[dekiesel]

@holocronweaver

There seems to be a small mistake in the gist that launchpad issue leads to, I added a comment under the gist.

https://gist.github.com/lukaswoj/5714b13802b0f3653c62d72895f31642

Keyboard shortcust are working for me now.