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PaperWM
- Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
- PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell
- Rethinking Window Management in Gnome
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Why doesn't Gnome have native tiling?
But with auto-tiling you need to place windows according to a pre-set configuration, it needs to fit whatever layout you want to go for and it needs to be able to resize the window without breaking the content. This works pretty well for libadwaita apps, but a lot of webapps seem to assume a certain minimum window size. Another issue is how to handle modal dialogues, where paperwm for example sets an override to ensure they're not attached to the main window. Should the settings window then be treated as a separate window and tiled, or should it be left floating above all others?
- PaperWM – Scrolling Window Manager for Gnome
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Fedora is really good
I like Gnome's simplicity, agree with most of its deviations from the tired old Windowsy desktop status quo, and am very happy to depend on all its great integration work. I can't quite live with the simplistic window management, but extensions cover that (as they do much else). With Fedora + Gnome + PaperWM, I'm quite at peace with the current linux desktop situation.
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Bismuth likely going to be deprecated after 5.27
Still I'm looking forward for something like PaperWM to be possible in KDE - or even to write it by myself
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Elementary OS 7
I have noticed in one of your comments in this thread that you are looking for novel ideas of the UI look. As others commenters stated, you might be interested in tiling window managers like i3 [0] or sway [1]. They are truly a gem for productivity and sometimes for an eye [2].
However, I love the concept of scrollable window manager like PaperWM [3] is. When I had a smaller screen (24" 16:9) I was complaining a lot on unused space on my screen. With PaperWM I was finally happy with its dimensions, because I could have huge IDE on the left and small part of terminal displayed on the right. That way I knew if something was printed to terminal, while my editor took 80% of the screen.
[0]: https://i3wm.org/
[1]: https://swaywm.org/
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How do i make linux not just a different version of windows
If you want something really different, give PaperWM a shot.
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2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop
You may want to try PaperWM (GNOME extension) https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
gnome-shell-wsmatrix
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November at System76: Products, Promos, & COSMIC DE
Workspace Matrix extension makes my day, every day.
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Celebrating 5 Years of Pop _OS
I just had NixOS break in a weird way for me. Ok, it was more that Gnome 42.4 broke the wsmatrix extension, which caused Gnome to shit itself[1] on login.
It's a little bit of a double edged sword. NixOS lets me use pretty much straight upstream packages, which sometimes break due to not having thorough integration testing like a traditional distro would. On the other hand, I was able to just boot up an older configuration to get back to functional, and that let me figure out wtf was wrong.
[1]: https://github.com/mzur/gnome-shell-wsmatrix/issues/236
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projects
Implement the Workspace Matrix extension for GNOME https://github.com/mzur/gnome-shell-wsmatrix in Sway, possibly looking at Sway Overview for inspiration.
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Problems with wall of workspaces
Hej, recently updated my laptop to 22.04 but after some years getting use to unity and 2 extra screens now seems i cannot find my way to have a decent wall of workspaces... i found a nice extension that works fine (https://github.com/mzur/gnome-shell-wsmatrix) but only seems to create the workspace wall on the latop screen and not on the other external screens...
- How do I change the Gnome shell from 42.0 to 42.1 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?
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Why you prefer horizontal workspaces?
Release info: https://github.com/mzur/gnome-shell-wsmatrix/releases
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System76 - New Desktop Environment Written in Rust Expected Summer 2023
My main concern is a 2D grid for workspaces, with workspace previews in the workspace switcher popup. Workspace Matrix does an excellent job of adding this to GNOME.
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Embrace fall with Dracula Theme
it will assign a new font to the extension. Then you may use an icon font, such as Font Awesome, Icofont or icomoon (which also allows you to create your own!). You can then change the workspace names with dconf-editor with the characters from the font. PM me if you need any help :)
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Tiling window manager/DE
On GNOME there's a way to get native 2 dimensional workspaces, but AFAIK the only way to enable this is with an extension like workspace matrix. For ctrl+alt+arrow-like shortcuts be sure to set keybindings for switch-to-workspace-arrow and move-to-workspace-arrow in org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings. However, I had some issues with GNOME 40 like: - Changing workspaces with mouse scroll jumps to an adjacent workspace up/down (as expected). Without a device that has horizontal scroll (like a touchpad) you can't go to adjacent workspaces left/right. - There are multiple issues with the workspace thumbnails in the overview.
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How do I debug global keybinds (I'm using Pop!_OS, but I doubt it's Pop!_OS specific)
Ok, so, I'm using Workspace Matrix for a workspace grid.
What are some alternatives?
material-shell - A modern desktop interface for Linux. Improve your user experience and get rid of the anarchy of traditional desktop workflows. Designed to simplify navigation and reduce the need to manipulate windows in order to improve productivity. It's meant to be 100% predictable and bring the benefits of tools coveted by professionals to everyone.
shelltile - A tiling window extension for GNOME Shell
gnome-shell-extension-appindicator - Adds KStatusNotifierItem support to the Shell
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
kwin-tiling - Tiling script for kwin
argos - Create GNOME Shell extensions in seconds
shell - Pop!_OS Shell
vertical-overview - Gnome has had vertically stacked workspaces for a long time. The Gnome 40 update unfortunately made the switch to a horizontal layout. A choice that many Gnome users disagree with. This extension completely replaces the new Gnome overview with something that resembles the old style.
Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
gnome-shell-extension-freon - Shows CPU temperature, disk temperature, video card temperature (NVIDIA/Catalyst/Bumblebee&NVIDIA), voltage and fan RPM
Grid-Tiling-Kwin - A kwin script that automatically tiles windows
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar