Hello guys,

I really like managing the windows positions with a shortcut: meta + numpad#.
I find them very intuitive: to put a window in the upper left corner, I press meta + the upper left number in the numpad.


I bought a new ultrawide 21:9 monitor, so I'd like to have some shortcuts to organize windows "in the center" (splitting the screen width in three).

I mean, I'd like to have these shortcuts:

• meta + numpad7 = move window to up left
• meta + numpad8 = move window to up center
• meta + numpad9 = move window to up right

• meta + numpad1 = move window to down left
• meta + numpad2 = move window to down center
• meta + numpad3 = move window to down right

• meta + numpad4 = move window to the left, whole height
• meta + numpad5 = move window to the center, whole height
• meta + numpad6 = move window to the right, whole height

• meta + numpad0 = maximize window

Or something like that...


But I have absolutely no idea on how I can do this. Do you?

Ok, I managed to implement this in a KWin script

What does your script look like ? And anyway, how did you get the original keys to do that, it seems interesting (like some strange window managers I experimented with a while back) ?

kde-dargaud wrote:What does your script look like ? And anyway, how did you get the original keys to do that, it seems interesting (like some strange window managers I experimented with a while back) ?

Here it is: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1276605/
I'm new to KWin scripting, the code is very simple... probably it could be improved.

Even though I'm facing some problems that I'm not able to resolve, it seems.

• The default shortcuts are not working, they must be set manually from the global shortcuts menu
• Upon removing the script, the registered shortcuts do not get removed! I changed some names, and now I have a lot of duplicates in the settings.

If you happen to know how to solve this I'd be very happy!