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Is there a way to automatically give each window (app) equal space in a KDE desktop, like Tiling in Windows?

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KDE does not have the native tiling feature you're after, you may want to look into a tiling window manager like xmonad or ratpoison, or use the built-in workspaces.

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Bug 165933 deals with tiling several windows. It's not reimplemented yet in KDE 4.

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Not exactly what you are looking for, but a tiling window manager is coming in KDE 4.5, here's a demonstration. An early version is already avaiable if you are brave.

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kwin in KDE 4.5+ has native tiling support.

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KDE 4.3 can do this, i'm pretty sure that 4.2 can too At least on my opensuse box.

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care to explain how? – John T Oct 8 '09 at 4:40
via the zoom out feature in plasma. its not EXACTLY what he wants but i think it might do. multiple plasma desktops, keeping each desktops apps seperae and seperate taskbars if needed. then zoom out and you can drag the desktops around – alpha1 Dec 7 '09 at 15:02
I don't have a KDE box handy, anymore, and nothing running 4.3 or below, but it was all from the right click menu on the desktop, wallpaper tab i think, and i wanna say it was a dropdown menu. – alpha1 Apr 1 '11 at 4:13
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Yea, right click the desktop, it might be called either olfder view settings if your using folder view or desktop settings if your using a desktop with or without plasma toolbox. (note this is for opensuse 11.1 with KDE 4.3.2, other systems may vary) then in suse at least, wallaper: Type-select image, then go to the picture dropdown, find your picture and lastly go to Positioning and select either Tiled, or Center Tiled, if you select center Tiled I think you also need to fill out the color field too (the color field is below the positioning) but by defaul there a color anyway. Then apply and see how it works. Hope this works, It will vary from OS to OS, so if you don't mind, what OS are you running?

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That would be wallpaper tiling, not window tiling. – John T Oct 9 '09 at 11:55
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