gurapoku

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[–] gurapoku 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

That's very interesting, especially the mouse part. I hadn't thought about remapping its buttons to anything related to KDE, and unfortunately I don't think that is possible in mine.

I am also surprised you can manage 20 desktops in two monitors. How much ram do you have, both in your brain and in your computer?! And the part where the grid is synced between the screens also feels a little weird to me, but even though I only use a single monitor, I can definitely see the appeal. Obviously, the biggest issue with doing that is that you have to have corresponding workspaces on both monitors at all times, but with 20 workspaces on each side, you can certainly get a lot of combinations. You could get two instances of firefox open in a different sets of workspaces, one for work and another for leisure, for instance. Firefox profiles are great for that!

Even then, I need to say it, 20 desktops on each side is a lot. For such a large number, you could consider activities, but since you seem to change desktop through the desktop grid, with no need for shortcuts, I can see how it becomes more manageable. Your setup seems very creative and unusual, at least for me.

Thanks for the comment!

[–] gurapoku 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I also noticed that and felt the same!

[–] gurapoku 5 points 11 months ago

Yes, my way is extremely confusing, even more than I thought before writing this. That picture with the firefox workspace in the middle really made it hit home. I don't recommend anyone to follow it.

Using the numpad as a grid workspace is an amazing idea I'd never thought of!

Not really my kind of thing since I don't really like to move my wrists much as I use my pc, but I've gotta admit, when I first saw it while I was researching for another commenter I just looked at my numpad and thought "genius". I had a grid in my keyboard and hadn't even noticed it. Maybe if I had known that a few years ago I would have used it, but nowadays, I prefer the workflow I have. Thanks for the amazing comment, nevertheless!

[–] gurapoku 2 points 11 months ago

Strangely enough, although I could've sworn there was a simple command for that, I could only find scripts. You can use them if you want, should be easy to find, but a surprising workaround someone mentioned was using the numpad as the grid.

[–] gurapoku 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I don't really remember how to do it, but think I remember there was a way to map ctrl+meta+down to workspace + 3, and ctrl+meta+up to workspace -3, which gave the same effect. I'll see if I can find it

[–] gurapoku 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I understand where you're coming from, but I think I prefer the ease of use of something like KDE. I tried sway for a while, only to figure out that I am not really a tiling window manager type of person :)

Thanks for the tip though!

[–] gurapoku 4 points 1 year ago

I haven't really used macos, so I can't really tell, but the dock looks like latte dock for me. And if you are on kde plasma, the global menu should be a widget...

Though I don't use either, try them out and see if it suits your tastes!

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