Side by Side

[keithm]

Hello, I have been reading the Plasma Manual (Kubuntu 21.10, Plasma 5.22.5) and around the forum, but cannot find an answer (at least not one that I can understand) to this question.
I want to show a window with a Planmaker spreadsheet side by side with a window with my Vivaldi browser, so that I can manually transfer information from an email to a spreadsheet without constantly swapping windows. In Planmaker I can show two spreadsheets side by side, and in Vivaldi I can show two tabs side by side, and (forgive the bad language) in Windows 10 I could tile windows to let me achieve my aim.
It maybe that I am not using the correct terminology for this process in Plasma, and it is really simple to do, but I cannot find how. Can anyone help?

[claydoh]

Drag a window to a side of the screen, and at least partly off the screen, with your mouse cursor at, or nearly at one of the four sides of the screen. The window should snap to where the mouse cursor is - half screen or quarter screen. You may see a black shaded area that represents where the window will go before you release the mouse. You can also be able to just just 'throw' a window at a side, and it should snap to that side.

Alternatively, click on a window, and hit the Windows key+arrow keys to do so.

[keithm]

Claydoh, thank you for that. It took me a little time to catch that to drag the window, you must have the cursor on the 'head' strip, but once I got that sorted, both methods worked well, including the black shaded indicator.
Simple really isn't it? Just so I can find these things out for myself, where, except (or even in) the Plasma Manual, might I have found these tricks?

[claydoh]

Claydoh, thank you for that. It took me a little time to catch that to drag the window, you must have the cursor on the 'head' strip, but once I got that sorted, both methods worked well, including the black shaded indicator.
Simple really isn't it? Just so I can find these things out for myself, where, except (or even in) the Plasma Manual, might I have found these tricks?

There is a manual

I have no idea if this is in the documentation. I did not quickly find anything.

I think needing to grab a window by the titlebar to move it is sort of a universal concept, across all operating systems? Maybe window snapping is also a similar universal? I can't recall when I 'learned' it, I have been doing this for as long as I can recall, and I have only used Windows on rare occaisions over the past two decades.

[keithm]

True enough. I think it will take me a little time to get used to the fact that so many things that worked in Windows also work on Kubuntu. But I can say, after using K for a month or so now, I wonder why Linux based systems have a reputation as being only for 'geeks'. If I can get on with it, anyone can get on with it!
Seasons Greetings.

[GreyGeek]

True enough. I think it will take me a little time to get used to the fact that so many things that worked in Windows also work on Kubuntu. But I can say, after using K for a month or so now, I wonder why Linux based systems have a reputation as being only for 'geeks'. If I can get on with it, anyone can get on with it!
Seasons Greetings.

When people ask me how hard Linux is to use I ask them if they know how to use the keyboard and mouse.
The Linux reputation for being hard to learn arose in the late 1990s because only geeks (like me, I'm 80) could install it. Imaging making 27 floppy disks as the install medium for Debian. Then imagine guys like Eric S Raymond and Richard Stallman talking about using Emacs in a console to do everything, from writing and compiling software, which they were masters at, to doing email and browsing the web. As the desktop environments available to Linux expanded and matured the need to be a "geek" disappeared. I switched from RedHat 5.0 to SuSE 5.3 in September of 1998 because SuSE 5.3 was the first distro to feature KDE 1.0 Beta. My memory is now so poor that if I had to do everything in Linux in the console I would have quit when I retired in 2008. For all intents and purposes KDE was a Windows clone which, if you configured it right, reduced the mental dissonance when switch back and forth between KDE and Windows. As KDE matured into Plasma I noticed that the Windows install routine began to look more like what Kubuntu's install routine and M$ was copying KDE in other ways. That may just be me, but there are a lot of bread crumbs leading one to that conclusion.