gala VS switchboard-plug-mouse-touchpad

Or with some manual compiling of things: https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-Wayland

As you can see here, here, here and here some work was done long ago to introduce different tiling options but this feature was never top priority for head dev.

it was broken here https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1304/commits. I'm too lazy to revert that code but it's possible to fix the gtk2 dimm bug (which possibly also fixes the rest too)

Report this issue on GitHub, please https://github.com/elementary/gala/issues

[2] https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-W...

For hiding applications from overview, or showing only windows of the focused app you would need to patch gala, the window manager. It is written mostly in vala, and uses libmutter (the same lib for gnome-shell's window management) underneath. Apparently it has a "plugin" system, but I'm not versed enough that those plugins have to be there at compile time or can be separately compiled. Here's the code: https://github.com/elementary/gala

There’s a link to a wiki on that project board with that info :) https://github.com/elementary/gala/wiki/Experimenting-with-Wayland

Start by git clone-ing the https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-mouse-touchpad project, and cd into the switchboard-plug-mouse-touchpad directory. We need to edit the meson_options.txt file to tell the compiler that we want to use the Gnome 40 version of the plug's calls, which is as easy as changing the option('gnome_40', type : 'boolean', value : false) line to read true instead of false. Once that's done, it's the same story as the other bits: