KDE Bismuth Brings Tiling To The Plasma Desktop

In the last few days, I've been spending a little time trying out KDE Bismuth, a tiling extension for the KDE Plasma desktop. And it's really nice. As a long time tiling window manager user, I feel quite comfortable using KDE Bismuth.

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[quantumtacos]

Cool, I thought I'd have to polish that a lot more before DT wouldn't hate it. I didn't start the project but I made it my baby for a while and I'm really pleased to see it getting attention here even if I thought it wasn't ready yet.

I ended up finding that kwin needs some changes in order for Bismuth to support multimonitors and virtual desktops the way everyone wants, so I changed my focus to kwin for now. Meanwhile one or two others are looking at porting the typescript over to c++ which will probably help with future upstreaming into kwin. Also there's been some work on a gui applet so that non-tiling users can discover some tiling features too, a bit like the tiling gui in popos.

That was the development news as of a few months ago but I know there's been activity since then.

[zinc]

You can highlight the focused windows by selecting bismuth in window decoration (under appearance settings)

[driden]

Looks like a great introduction to twm with everything being set up for the user already, I like it.

[tuckersguitarfiasco]

what is funny is last night I was wondering if KDE had tiling support. you just answered my question!

[olivar_nt]

I've been using bismuth for a few weeks now and I'm in love with it. I really wanted to try a tiling window manager, but I love all features KDE Plasma gives me so I didn't want to stop using it and decided to look for an alternative. I had tried Krohnkite at first, but I found out it was discontinued, then I discovered bismuth and it simply solved this matter for me. It's a great tool.

[dustanddeath]

I've hopped through almost every TWM and have custom configs for hlwm, bspwm, awesome, ratpoison, evilwm, and i3wm. I've been using Plasma with Bismuth the last year because of all that good KDE functionality, glad you appreciate it as well! Edit: Bismuth works perfectly with the panel anchored on the left side, which is not common among twms!

[mentalmarvin]

I moved from awesomewm to KDE a year ago, thanks to bismuth. I now get proper blur, saved notifications, a fully functioning kdeconnect, all easy configurable.

[SriHarshaChilakapati]

I tried tiling window managers, but it didn't work with my workflow. As a software engineer, I only focus on one window at a time, because otherwise they'll easily distract me. So I have one window per workspace in my workflow. And if a window is small window, I'm going to center it always. So I use Rectangle with KDE. You can easily stack windows to side if you need.

And whenever I need a terminal, I always have Yakuake open which gives me a drop down terminal, quake style. I use TMUX inside it though, so that itself works well for me.

[atps]

Great video. Manjaro + KDE + Bismuth fits my workflow like a glove. I cannot wait for the detailed video with all the configuration, customization, tinkering, and adding stuff like active window border, moving windows between monitros, deep configuration of bismuth, and so on.

[naderz]

as a windows user for over 20 years kde plasma has been wonderful for me this year in my transition, it really let me live all my desktop customization dreams lol, i know arch users can do more, but for me i have had so much fun just customizing and tinkering in the gui lol but i have world of warcraft style messed with a lotta keybinds

[KRMLN]

oh man i thought i was watching bob ross for a second

[Cenotph]

been recently looking into using something like a tiling manager, tried awesome for all but an hour and found out that a lot of things need to be build and that's not my idea of getting things done.
Bismuth and KDE seems a good solution to have the best of both worlds

[JosenildoMarques]

That's what I really wanted!! And I've installed it! Thank you very much!!!

[buriedstpatrick]

Been using Bismuth for the past year on an ultra-wide 5120x1440 screen and the three-column layout is a godsend. My only regret is that I set it up on Manjaro lol. It's a really nice window manager and does exactly what I need it to do without over-complicating things for the user.

[theodorealenas]

The thumbnail is like "where is Scatman? I am Scatman!"

[patpopov]

Apt couldn't find kde-bismuth but kwin-bismuth worked just fine!

[jmacx]

good to see that bismuth removes window chrome. That's my only issue with the current tiling plugin I'm using on Gnome. I'm not going to use Plasma again any time soon but it's good to see KDE making this an out of the box option.

[davidturcotte]

My Bismuth brings all the boys to the yard...

[Amos_Huclkeberry]

Perhaps KDE Bismuth will be it's own distro.

[Karla_Finch-Cluff]

This is exciting, looking forward to trying this soon. Thanks for showing us!
Edit: I had to use dnf Dragora [YaY fedora world problems @_@] to install Bismuth but now that I have, I'm going to have a lot of fun with this!
I've been testing live distros with TWM and I get so lost because I can't figure out how to change keybinds of anything I Want to use on the regular so while I use live-usb I can't properly test. This may be the best for my current situation until I feel confident enough to dive into full TWM. While Pop!_OS has a Tiling layout which I had a lot of fun and the keybinds were sensible for me, I am not ready to switch distros yet. Thanks again for shining a light to kde-bismuth!