Weird Behaviour on Wayland (Plasma 5) about grid-tiling-kwin HOT 11 CLOSED

The problem is that I don't have a system with Plasma 5 any more after I've upgraded to Plasma 6....

But I can give you some pointers of where you can look to perhaps solve this, but I believe that the underlying issue is that many applications in wayland do not properly set their window type and just mark everything as a normalWindow

What you could try is to use theWindow Operations Menu (there is a global shortcut for it) and when you open a specific window you open this menu and go to more actions > configure special window settings and then in the window types field you could then unmark them from normalWindow.

The code only tiles windows that are marked as normalWindow so that may work.

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That did not work :/ I added the correct property to "Force" the window property to be anything but a normalWindow. However for some reason even after rebooting, restarting firefox and re-applying the script it still tiles it. My guess is that the Window Rule only changes the window type once it opens, when the script already has identified it as a normalWindow.

Sad but it's not that big of a deal. Thanks for the help and quick response!

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There is a delay option in the script configuration that you can use to delay tiling the windows. Defaults to 10ms, you can try to increase it, but beware that if you make it too high your overall experience may feel a bit laggy. But maybe 100ms will work?

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I tried that and it still didn't work. I made more research and it appears that the problem is that the actual Window Rules do not work correctly in Wayland, in the sense that only a few properties can be modified. I'm guessing the Window Type isn't one of them, as I'm completely sure the Window Rule was correctly configured.

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Ah okay, if the window has other window types besides normalWindow you could try to modify the script to also ignore when one of those are present. For example if the window has the window type dialog then you could expand line 10 in https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin/blob/%3C6.0/contents/code/Manager.qml to additionally also check against that window type by adding client.dialog to the current list of checks like so

return client.transient || client.dialog || !client.normalWindow || (config.blacklist && config.blacklist.test(client.resourceName));

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Does the client variable have any information about the window title, description or other window properties? It seems the window type of any window (according to Window Management > Window Rules > Detect Window Properties) is marked as "All Types", as in all window types are selected. If there was a way for me to filter out windows based on other window parameters that would be great!

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you can use client.resourceName and client.resourceClass but I think those only contain the application name and those are already filtered by the blacklist and whitelist config parameters. I have not been able to find anything else in the KWin API (have also asked the developers) but in X11 we seemed to have more parameters to distinguish.

I did make a hack once that checked on pid so if an application started with a parent pid that was already tiled to then ignore it. The problem with that was that some applications use a managing process and then when you start multiple windows they all have the same parent pid. So only the first chrome window would get tiled and the rest after that would be ignored. So I got rid of that hack again.

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Did you manage to find a solution to your issue?

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Hey, I haven't found the time to explore this further. Maybe some day, but thank you so much for your help! Does this problem also occur on Plasma 6? If not, I will eventually have to update so problem fixed.

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A lot has changed in Plasma 6 so let's hope so 😄 If you do still encounter the issue or have more questions feel free to open a new ticket

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Hey there! Updated to Plasma 6 and this issue persists.

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