PlasmaZones

Advanced window zone management for KDE Plasma 6. Define zones on your screen. Drag windows into them. Done.

Features:

Window Snapping

• Drag with modifier key or mouse button to snap windows to zones
• Snap all visible windows to zones at once
• Auto-assign windows to first empty zone per layout
• Multi-zone snapping support
• Move windows between zones with keyboard shortcuts
• Focus adjacent zones without mouse
• Cycle through windows stacked in the same zone (monocle-style)
• Push window to first empty zone
• Restore original size on unsnap
• Per-window floating toggle
• App-to-zone rules: auto-snap specific applications to designated zones

Layout Editor

• Visual canvas for drawing and resizing zones
• 12 built-in templates (columns, grids, fibonacci, master-stack, focus+stack, and more)
• Undo/redo, copy/paste, cut, duplicate
• Split zones horizontally or vertically
• Grid and edge snapping
• Fill available space / auto-expand
• Fullscreen editing mode
• Per-zone colors and styling
• Layout visibility filtering: restrict layouts to specific screens, desktops, or activities

Shader Effects

• GPU-accelerated zone overlays with 14 built-in effects, including multipass shaders with 3D raymarching and bloom.

Zone Selector

• Drag to screen edge to reveal a layout picker. Choose any layout and zone without cycling.

Visual Layout OSD

• See a preview of the layout when switching, not just text.

Multi-Monitor & Virtual Desktops

• Per-monitor layouts (same or different)
• Per-virtual-desktop layouts
• Per-activity layouts (optional, requires PlasmaActivities)
• Per-monitor zone selector settings
• Per-screen shader selection
• Screen-targeted app-to-zone rules

System Settings Integration

Full KCM module with 7 tabs — no config file editing required. Includes built-in update checker with GitHub release notifications.