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Layouts and Settings
Every workspace can have its own layout. Cycle between them with the layout shortcut, or set them in settings.
Windows split the screen like a tree — each new window splits the largest space in half, so everything stays roughly balanced. Great for getting a lot of things on screen at once.
One big window on one side (the "master") with the rest of the windows stacked in a column beside it. Perfect for "one thing I'm working on, plus context."
Same idea, but the big window sits in the center with stacks on both sides.
Nothing tiles at all — windows behave like a regular desktop. Handy for workspaces where you just want to move things around freely.
Open Plaid's settings from the Extensions app. There are a few pages:
The basics:
- Enabled — turn tiling on or off entirely
- Layout — which layout new workspaces start with
- Gaps — the space between windows (and per-edge gaps for a single window)
- Dwindle / Master ratios — how the split proportions are decided
- Follow focus — moving focus also moves the mouse
- Focus on Hover — focus the window under the mouse (works across monitors). Plaid implements this itself, so it works alongside GNOME's "click" focus mode
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Auto Update — install Plaid updates automatically when they're released; a notification lets you know, and the new version loads on your next login. Turn it off to skip checks and notifications entirely. (Skipped automatically when Plaid is installed system-wide, e.g. on PlaidOS, where updates come via
bootc upgrade) - Mouse resize — resize with the mouse by dragging window edges
The visual polish:
- Borders — width, colors, and gradient colors for active/inactive windows
- Rounded corners — how round your window corners are
- Window blur — blur windows behind the focused one (radius, brightness)
- Gradient borders — animated gradient borders in three directions
- Background App — pin an app behind all windows as a live desktop background (see Scratchpad, DDT & BGAPP)
- Drop-down terminal — the pull-down terminal's command and height
Every shortcut, all remappable — see Keybindings.
Windows that should never tile:
- Float classes — apps that always float
- Float titles — specific window titles that float
- Minimum sizes — a minimum size for windows that like to be tiny (Steam's friends list, for example)
More detail on Floating windows.
- Maximize respects gaps — maximizing fills the screen within your gaps, not flush to the edges
- Workspace pill — the workspace indicator shows the active app and window title
- Dynamic workspaces — workspaces appear and disappear with your content, no fixed slot count