How do I control window placement in KDE with keyboard?

Question

Is it possible in KDE to set up keyboard shortcuts similar to what Unity uses for window placement - i.e. Alt - Ctrl - Numpad 6 to make a window occupy the left half of the screen etc.?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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...

Answer 3

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)