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Divide screen each with it's own panel (self.kde)

submitted 1 day ago by peregus to c/[email protected]

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Hi everybody!
I've just installed Kubuntu and I'm using Linux gui for the first time.
I have 2 4K screens, one horizontal and one vertical. With Windows I divide the horizontal one in 4 equal parts and the vertical in 3 parts so that all are almost 16:9 and each have it's own taskbar that's so useful to me because I know what I've opened in every virtual screen and if in virtual screen there is Outlook, but I need to take in foreground Chrome that I know it's there (but it's also in other screens), I can click on Chrome on the virtual screen 1 taskbar. If there are no multiple taskbar, I would have to click on Chrome on the main taskbar and select which window I need (which can be problematic because not always it's possible to see what's going on in the small preview).

Is this or something similar possible with KDE plasma (I'm on 6.1.5).

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So something like tiling, but with taskbars on each screen that only show the application/windows of that given screen?

[–] peregus 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've had a look at tiling and yes, that with taskbar for each screen. I've been using that setup (with DisplayFusion) for years and now I can't work without it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

for the taskbar part: you can just add an additional panel to your second screen, pull a window list on it that configure it so that it only shows windows of that active screen (I'm currently not on KDE so I can't be of more assistance), kwin afaik has a tiling plugin/mode that you can activate.

[–] peregus 2 points 1 day ago

The problem is that I need on for each virtual screen: 7, but thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into it

[–] maxwellfire 1 points 1 day ago

This is definitely not possible with base KDE. If you're using x11, you might be able to follow https://askubuntu.com/questions/1398508/split-a-widescreen-monitor-in-two but it's pretty fragile, and I'm not sure if KDE will respect those monitors.