Sorry for the late reply, have been held up for a bit.
In relation to creating a new user, I did so, the same behavior is displayed by default. Personally I care not to create another user to test changes on, I’d rather do it on my primary user as easier.
In relation to screenshots, I’m not 100% on how I can create screenshots to exactly show this but I’ll have an attempt in a bit.
To better explain the behavior and also point out the location where the settings for the behavior are.
In settings > Workspace Behavior > Screen Edges
- Tile: Windows dragged to left or right edge
The above setting results in the following
- You grab a window title bar
- Drag that window against the edge of your screen, left or right
- The window then is adjusted to be the height of the screen and half the width of the screen. for example
A window (1280x720)
A screen (1920x1080)
The window becomes (960x1080) (if it had been dragged to the left, the window x.pos would be 0 else if to the right the window x.pos would be 960)
The new behavior is
A window (1280x720)
A screen (1920x1080)
The window becomes either
- If there are no other snapped windows (1280x1080)
- If there’s another window, (the available space that the other window doesn’t take up x1080)
In relation to the new behavior, I’ve had a look through everywhere I could and played around with numerous settings to no avail, prior to this change, I had not modified any of my settings for a number of months. This setting changed after last nights (i believe) updates.
No settings in the Screen Edges page changes the new behavior (I’ve tried them all) and I can’t find anything relevant else where.
I took some pictures and tried uploading them, but the forum responds with a message saying “An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post.”. Idk what’s up, perhaps a restriction for a new account?
Also another behavior change I’ve observed relating to windows scaling/sizing
If you snap a window to half the screen, re-size that window, drag that window out of scaling mode and snap a different window, that new window will be scaled to take up the space that would have left available by the last snap re-sizeing (kde now acting like a hybrid tiled window manager with static scaling? for window edge snapping)
Also now when unsnapping windows, they don’t maintain their new size as a result of being snapped, previously the size change as a result of snapping was a persistent change until other action is taken to update the window size
Ie
Screen: 1920x1080
Window is: 1280x720
Window Is snapped to the left half the screen: 960x1080
Window is resized to 500x1080 while in snapped state
Window is dragged out of snapped state (window changes back to 1280x720)
Another window is snapped to the right half of the screen (window now is sized at 1420x1080 despite no other window being currently snapped)
The more I look into the new behavior the more it seems like a permanent change to kde window management, Being there’s a lack of settings for this and it being more Windows like, I have a feeling there won’t be anyway to revert this behavior.