Port to KDE 6

[materemias]

Please port this to Plasma 6

[nclarius]

Unfortunately as of now there is no porting guide describing what needs to be changed to make KWin scripts work with Plasma 6, so it will take me some time to figure it out. Sorry about that. It is planned though.

[codenyte]

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Porting-your-scripts-to-KWin-6

[nclarius]

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/wikis/Porting-your-scripts-to-KWin-6

Thanks, wasn't aware of that. Apparently it's not quite finished yet though and they are planning to publish a complete version to the scripting tutorial at develop.kde.org soon.

[materemias]

Nice, thanks a lot for checking it, this is the guide for plasmoids , maybe it helps

[nclarius]

Nice, thanks a lot for checking it, this is the guide for plasmoids , maybe it helps

Not really because Plasma widgets work quite differently, but someone kindly already did the work and opened a pull request so I'll take a look at that.

[Ali-Aref]

Any updates ?

[Exordio]

• need wayland support...

[tockudex]

Hi,
Are there any news on the KDE Plasma 6 port and Wayland support ?

[tockudex]

I'm willing to put out a bounty on the resolution of the Plasma 6 AND Wayland port.

[ccatterina]

hi @tockudex ,
I was already working on this for a few days. I started from the @audreylandgrave pull request and fixed a bug that prevented the gaps from applying correctly on Wayland.

I haven’t opened a PR yet because I’ve noticed some unusual behavior. Since I haven’t used this KWin script before, I’m not sure if these issues are related to the port or are pre-existing.

If you want to try it out, here's the branch.

[tockudex]

Hey there @ccatterina,

thanks for your amazing work!
It seems to work just fine (I haven't played around a lot with the settings though)!

I just noticed that the Kwin setting's page resizes to the script's setting window size, when ever that latter is opened. Can't remember if that happened on the X11/Plasma 5 version.

[dreamscached]

Hi @ccatterina, thanks for awesome work from me too! I've made an AUR package with your fork of this repo (base repo seems abandoned, to be honest) — could you maybe continue the project as a fork rather than just a patch? Who knows when will it be merged (if ever...)

[tockudex]

@dreamscached that's amazing!

However, I had to disable the script, as it indeed strangely resizes windows...

[ccatterina]

@dreamscached that's amazing!

However, I had to disable the script, as it indeed strangely resizes windows...

Hi @tockudex , a couple of days after my first message I pushed an other commit that should fix that bug.

Hi @ccatterina, thanks for awesome work from me too! I've made an AUR package with your fork of this repo (base repo seems abandoned, to be honest) — could you maybe continue the project as a fork rather than just a patch? Who knows when will it be merged (if ever...)

I haven't much time to work at the project and maintain it, but I'll think about it and I'll let you know

[nextgenthemes]

Does anyone here by chance know a solution to my issue here: gerritdevriese/kzones#211

AI send me here claiming I could use this as a solution to this, some AI slop below for reference. Just saw there is actually a PR for a 6.0 port but its X11 only? So no Wayland?

Apply the Fix: By default, the script only snaps windows if there is a gap. To make it snap windows that are already at the edge (0 gap), you must modify the script's tolerance value.
Open a terminal and run the following command to change the tolerance from 2 * gap to a fixed pixel value (e.g., 6px):
sed -i 's/tolerance = 2 \* gap/tolerance = 6/g' ~/.local/share/kwin/scripts/tilegaps/contents/code/main.js

Restart the script: Toggle it off and on in System Settings, or run qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure.
How it works: This forces any window within 6 pixels of the screen edge to automatically "snap" into the tiling state, enabling the Meta+drag resizing behavior immediately upon launch.

Also said this:

Why Built-in Settings Fail
The native KDE setting "Remember window size and position" saves the geometric coordinates ($x, y, width, height$). When an app restores to $x=0$, it is visually at the edge. However, KDE's resizing logic (the "electric border" behavior triggered by Meta+drag) requires an internal flag indicating the window is attached to the screen edge. Restoring geometry does not set this flag; only an active "snap" action (dragging to edge or using a shortcut) sets it. These scripts bridge that gap by detecting the geometry and forcibly applying the snapped state.

To me, it seems this is something KDE should natively support, I never did any Kwin scripting, but I am willing to try it if anyone has an idea of a starting point. Or some script that is already made for KDE 6 and is touching on this area that I could learn from I would gladly appreciate it.