# zeroxoneafour/polonium

Autotile manager for Plasma 6

Repository: https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/polonium
Homepage: https://polonium.vaughanm.xyz/
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: kde, kwin, tiling, tiling-window-manager, tiling-scripts, typescript, kwin-script
Last push: 2026-08-02T16:49:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 95, longevity 85
- inputs: {"age_days": 1202, "days_push": 31, "days_rel": 39, "gap_med": 20.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1139, forks 30 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:44.209759+00:00)

## What it is
Polonium is an autotiling window manager script (plugin) for KDE Plasma 6's KWin compositor, serving as a spiritual successor to Bismuth. It provides configurable tiling layouts, mouse and keyboard window management, and DBus-based persistence, working exclusively on Wayland.

## Use cases
- auto-tile windows in KDE Plasma 6
- replace Bismuth tiling on Plasma 6 Wayland
- use dwindle or master-stack layouts in KWin
- resize tiles with mouse in KDE
- set per-screen and per-desktop tiling layouts
- persist tiling layouts across logout via DBus

## When to choose
- you run KDE Plasma 6.4+ on Wayland and want automatic window tiling
- you want deep KWin integration including tile resizing and virtual keyboard support
- you want configurable layouts like BTree, Half, Three Column, Pillars, or Pager

## When to avoid
- you use X11 - it is explicitly unsupported
- you want maximum stability over deep integration (Krohnkite may suit better)
- you need monocle layout, which is incompatible with KWin tiles

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: desktop-framework, gui, configuration-management
- domain: desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: kde-plasma, kwin-script, tiling-window-manager, wayland, autotiling, bismuth-successor, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- zeroxoneafour/polonium (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:44.209759+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:36:06.731480+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:44.209759+00:00, sha a49e8eee9d27)
  - homepage: https://polonium.vaughanm.xyz/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:41:13.533565+00:00, sha f86c42341487)
  - site_page: https://polonium.vaughanm.xyz/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T12:41:13.542705+00:00, sha e576b310bb95)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.