How do I control window placement in KDE with keyboard?

More precisely:

  1. System Settings -> Shortcuts and Gestures -> Global Keyboard Shortcuts
  2. KDE component: KWin ▼
  3. Quick Tile Window to the Left etc.

There is also somewhat interesting Enable/Disable Tiling, which defaults to Alt+Shift+F11. Unfortunately I could not figure out how to move tile a window so that it consumes top or bottom of the screen, but other hotkeys can be used to achieve that.


The KDE global keyboard shortcuts: System Settings > Shortcuts and Gestures > Global Keyboard Shortcuts. Pick the KWIN as the KDE component. You could set the keyboard shortcuts to the window position/tiling etc...


I was looking for a way to mimic the Microsoft Windows 7 window placement via keyboard including the windows (start) key.

Similar to the other answers I went:

  1. Component:
    System Settings
    -> Shortcuts
    --> Global Shortcuts
    ---> System Settings Module (KDE Plasma Version: 5.9.5)
    ---> KWin (KDE Plasma Version: 5.9.12)
  2. Action: Quick Tile Window to the {Left|Right} etc.
  3. Used key-combinations: Meta+Left, Meta+Right

here: the meta key is the name for the MS Windows start key.

(KDE Plasma Version: 5.9.5)

(KDE Plasma Version: 5.9.12)