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<a href="https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin</a></p>
<p>It's not part of KDE by default, but then nor is having more than one virtual desktop.</p></div>
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<p>If I'm understanding the documentation at <a href="https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin</a>, that script doesn't actually set Meta+Ctrl+arrows as shortcuts, it just recommends that the user does it.</p>
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color: rgb(107, 116, 140);"><p>Hmm, Ctrl+Alt+Arrows can also break things like Konsole (<a href="https://cgit.kde.org/konsole.git/tree/src/ViewManager.cpp#n237" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://cgit.kde.org/konsole.git/tree/src/ViewManager.cpp#n237</a>) and Meta is more appropriate for desktop/window management shortcuts, so less likely to break other applications that are not desktop add-ons.</p></div>
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<p>Right, that's exactly why we should use Meta for this, and use Meta for global shortcuts more generally. I really think the shortcuts proposed in this patch are just fine and we should move forward. No other alternative shortcut proposed here works:</p>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item">Meta+WASD is unintuitive and requires re-binding Meta+D which is used for Show Desktop</li>
<li class="remarkup-list-item">Ctrl+Alt+arrows is semantically wrong since it doesn't use the Meta key and interferes with Konsole and potentially other apps</li>
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<p>IMO we should consider going forward with this otherwise we'll get stuck in the weeds forever trying to come up with something</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R108 KWin</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D24281">https://phabricator.kde.org/D24281</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>GB_2, KWin, Plasma, VDG, romangg, ngraham<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>davidedmundson, thiagosueto, ngraham, romangg, zzag, VDG, Plasma, kwin, KWin, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, sbergeron, jraleigh, fbampaloukas, GB_2, mkulinski, ragreen, jackyalcine, iodelay, crozbo, bwowk, ZrenBot, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, hardening, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra, mart<br /></div>