Porting a Tiling Window Manager Extenstion to C++ (Bismuth): Part-1

Hi everyone! I understand it’s been a long time, and I’m so excited to be writing this blog today. In today’s blog, I wanted to talk about my journey (so far) on contributing to Bismuth (a KDE’s Tiling Window Manager Extension), mainly how and why I started, and where I am right now.

The Story: Why KDE Plasma and Why Bismuth?

For the last few months (close to a year), I’ve been using Pop OS (a linux distribution by System 76) which had this amazing automatic tiling window extension called pop-shell, and it was close to what I always needed: