This reply is in case you want to tile in KDE. I see you already found a solution with Yakuake / Guake tool and you don’t need to change to a tiling system just for that.

Well if you would use tiling window manager in KDE with the extension Krohnkite, it has a feature for doing exactly that. You can set a window to be a Dock (I manually chose the shortcut Meta+D for that) and it will attach to any side you want and not interfere with the other tiled windows anymore. And you don’t have to tile every window. In example on my Desktop 4, I set it to floating everything (which is no tiling at all) for games. You basically could set this floating mode be the default and whenever you want, you can start tiling specific Desktops or windows only.

Fedorai

Not entirely the same, if the drivers are builtin into the Linux Kernel. I don’t know if the Steam Controller drivers will be Open Source, so maybe its the same.

OK, so indirectly, like in any other PC and computer industry. I thought there was a specific issue with Steam and Sam. Never mind then, I understand the issue then.

Well any game or launcher or emulator have to support the controller or type of controller. In example Valve cannot guarantee that all functionality (like the trackpads and motion controls) are supported elsewhere.

But they answered the question. Valve can only guarantee that games are compatible with Steam Overlay compatible games. They don’t want to commit to a “yes” or “no” for stuff outside Steam, and then be liable for that answer if it does not work as advertised and then get sued to the ground. So you cannot blame them.

I don’t know on Windows, but on Linux you most likely can use the controller to play on any game. It’s just not supported and guaranteed by Valve.

I purchased mine for full price too. Unfortunately I do not like it for various reasons. Missing dpad and second stick, and holding it is a bit uncomfortable to my hands. And at the early days Steam Input wasn’t this refined. But I loved using it to play with gyro controls. But will keep it, its history. :-)

The new controller is based on the Steam Deck controls and vastly superior to me (if we assume its like that). I can’t imagine you don’t liking it as much as the old controller.

Same energy of scalpers.

Sorry, but what has Sam Altman anything to do with this announcement or set of information by VALVE?

Why is Vim a security hole?

No, the Krohkite addon doesn’t have a configuration window to change shortcuts in the Kwin scripts section. And there is no need for anyway, as all shortcuts are in a central place of KDE shortcuts.

BTW back in KDE 5 I did that, used an alternative tiling window manager (I think it was i3wm) instead KWin. It worked, but it had its own set of problems. Not sure if it is still possible, but based on my prior experience I wouldn’t recommend it anyway. Instead the tiling script / addon Krohkite should be used, as people recommend. I use it myself (and I am a tiling window manager guy) and it works well, as it is well integrated and smooth experience in KDE.

That’s manual tiling with the mouse. It’s not the same as auto tiling like PopOS does.

Also available through KDE Settings > Window Management > KWin Scripts > [Get New…] . Installing it through this method should automatically update whenever its updated.

You change the shortcuts in the Plasma shortcuts window. Just type in the KDE shortcuts search bar “krohkite” to show matching entries only.

There was a period when KDE 6 was new and the Wayland stuff on top of it, where Kröhnkite didn’t work well. I use it since then as my daily driver and don’t have issues. Off course there might be edge cases and I do not resize windows manually much, in tiling mode. But I use floating mode too and resize windows to my liking and don’t have an issue like that.

BTW there is an fantastic “Dock” mode in Kröhkite, where you can define a window to be a dock that is always visible on the left/right or up/bottom area of all desktops; behaves similar to a normal dock from KDE Plasma. It’s a function I never saw in any other desktop environments or tilers.

Another Kröhnkite user here. I used tiling window managers before (mainly Qtile) and cannot use a desktop without auto tiling anymore.

Kröhnkite: is THE tiling addon for KDE in my experience. There was a period when it was broken and I experimented with other solutions (Polonium worked for a while, but now that thing stopped working lol and Kröhnkite works well again). You just need to setup your keybindings and configure the limited configuration itself. You can also remove the title bars and have colored outline for active window, if that is your thing. But that is not very configurable and is a weak point in my opinion.

Karousel: a scrollable tiling window manager. If that is your thing. It worked fine, I’m just not a fan of this type.

Mouse Tiler: and then there is a new and promising addon script in the works. The main selling point was and is that tiling is done manually and with mouse only. But after lot of request the dev is working on an automatic tiling system, which puts it into my radar. And I hope it will have configurable keyboard shortcuts too. Dev says the auto tiling works already and in the next days it will be updated. Didn’t try it out yet, but looks promising to me.

The Windows UX is horrible. What desktop environment do you use on Linux, that you think that Windows is better? :D

I searched the web and found this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends

• just started Shenmue 3, I’m a big fan of the first two games from the Dreamcast era
• continue playing Sailor Moon: Another Story RPG on the SNES through RetroArch

As you can see, I’m oldschool fan. :D There are so many games installed and available to me, every time the Deck is opened up, I have choice paralyzes.