KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely
KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 3 October 2026 at 06:07 AM EDT. Add A Comment There is just over one week to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop release. Some last minute fixes continue flowing into Plasma 6.8 as well as early feature work continuing for Plasma 6.9.
- ▪KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 3 October 2026 at 06:07 AM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment There is just over one week to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop release.
- ▪Some last minute fixes continue flowing into Plasma 6.8 as well as early feature work continuing for Plasma 6.9.
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 3 October 2026 at 06:07 AM EDT. Add A Comment There is just over one week to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop release. Some last minute fixes continue flowing into Plasma 6.8 as well as early feature work continuing for Plasma 6.9. Making it in time for the Plasma 6.8 release is that tiled windows now have square corners so they fit together nicely with other windows. This stems from a 2024 bug report that rounded corners should be disabled when the window is tiling , similar to how Microsoft Windows behaves. It was noted KDE Plasma used to behave like this bug regressed at some point.
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