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. (by material-shell)
bismuth
KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm. (by Bismuth-Forge)
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
material-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of material-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.
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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
I really want https://material-shell.com/ for MacOS
it was perfect for using a single monitor
kinda like a deterministic alt+tab, you set up the layout of "workspaces" and they're always in the same place
I keep getting annoyed at alt+tab because I accidentally clicked on another window and now the order is messed up
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Kera Desktop: A brand-new desktop environment in the development
I'm confused. How does that work? Is it like a GNOME extension or something; similar to how Material Shell works?
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Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid base is changing from Ubuntu to Debian
check this gnome plugin https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell
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How many of you use your gnu/linux distro without much customization?
I don't know too much about that. You can achieve a lot with gnome extensions. And if you'd like to build your own and see what's possible, check out the source code of Material Shell
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I'm a tiling WM user but the concept of the scrolling window managers were new to me. This idea might be experimental but using it was fun. If you want to try it, CardBoard is a good start. I had fun using it for a couple of days and thought it's good to share it with you too.
Website: https://material-shell.com/
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do any tiling extensions work on Gnome 44?
Material Shell has Gnome 44 support: https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell/releases/tag/44
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An easy-to-learn Linux Window Manager
But you might want to try out Gnome first, with one of the many tiling extensions, or perhaps Material Shell for a Tiling like WM experience
- What is the best tilling window manager?
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Considering Switching from Pop_OS!
Has anyone used Material Shell? It looks like it will do the tiling for me.
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Can't install Gnome Shell Extensions
Hi, I'm working on Ubuntu 22.04.1 with Gnome 42.5. I used to be able to install shell extensions just fine with the Chrome extension. However (I think since (un)installing the Material Shell Extension), I can't install any extension anymore, not via the Chrome extension, not via the terminal (`gnome-extensions install -f ...`). In the browser, the switch is available and clickable, but nothing simply happens. Via the terminal, no feedback at all is given. When going over the [source code](https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell) of the material shell, it seems that it tampers with some extensions and God knows what else... Via `dconf` I had to enable the allowance of extensions (`disable-user-extensions`), also something Material Shell probably did. I uninstalled Material Shell according to the docs, but of course, not everything is undone...
bismuth
Posts with mentions or reviews of bismuth.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-18.
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Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
What level are you interested in scripting? In KDE Plasma you can interact with the desktop UI via JS: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/scripting/
And then for something more sophisticated there are extensions like https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth.
It does all feel a little disorganized/wild-west-y compared to say, a .vimrc with a list of plugins and bindings, which is something that makes a system like Nix (or a fully containerized DE of some kind) appealing
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Hyprland Crash Course
It had, but they are all dead until ported to the new kde 6.
https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/issues/471#issuecom...
This is what I used. I found no good replacement for it and that is what made me switch to hyprland.
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This week in KDE: Double-click by default
one thing i would totally recommend for kde is bismuth https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/
it's tiling for kde and it works REALLY well.
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I find myself getting annoyed with having to set each window Up how I like it. So far this is a set up I enjoy when working on projects. How can I get Ubuntu to save this 'set up' so I can quickly open these apps in this view?
Take a look at a tiling window solution. I'm currently using bismuthwith gives similar arrangement to what you're looking for and helps massively with productivity when working on an ultrawide
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What is a good windows tiling manager for beginners?
As a good halfway house you could do worse than KDE with Bismuth (https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth), which is an add-in that will give you great tiling capability, fully controllable via the keyboard. Couple this with KDE native virtual desktops and you have a pretty decent tiling window manager.
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Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux
Plasma 5.27 added in some native tiling support. There are also some kwin scripts available to add tiling to it.
https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth
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I am a little concerned about Tiling on KDE 6
Not-good stuff: This tiling is very incomplete. It doesn't allow you to snap everything to your tiles at once, it doesn't support different tiles per virtual screen/workspace and, perhaps more importantly, with that addition and Plasma 6 on the way, compatibility with Bismuth and similar addons is getting lost.
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Trying to make a case for tiling WM.
Since you are already using KDE, you can very easily try how much you like tiling: just install bismuth: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth It's a plasma add-on that enables tiling in KDE. If you don't like tiling, just disable the plugin again and uninstall bismuth.
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A couple of questions regarding Bismuth tiling extension
No, it doesn't have that. Here is the list of layouts.
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Manjaro / KDE — hard to dislike
No I was talking about Bismuth which was amazing and actively maintained but due to kwin updates it's not working and is apparently not going to be updated
What are some alternatives?
When comparing material-shell and bismuth you can also consider the following projects:
PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell
krohnkite - A dynamic tiling extension for KWin
titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme
i3-and-kde-plasma - How to install the i3 window manager on KDE
i3-gnome - Use i3wm/i3-gaps with GNOME Session infrastructure.
kwin-tiling - Tiling script for kwin
gnome-gesture-improvements - Touchpad gesture improvements for GNOME on Wayland/X11
Grid-Tiling-Kwin - A kwin script that automatically tiles windows
forge - Forge - Tiling and Window Manager for Gnome-Shell [Moved to: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge]
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide - Things to do after installing Fedora 37 [Moved to: https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-37-Post-Install-Guide]
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
material-shell vs PaperWM
bismuth vs krohnkite
material-shell vs titus-awesome
bismuth vs i3-and-kde-plasma
material-shell vs i3-gnome
bismuth vs kwin-tiling
material-shell vs gnome-gesture-improvements
bismuth vs Grid-Tiling-Kwin
material-shell vs forge
bismuth vs awesome-wayland
material-shell vs Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide
bismuth vs bspwm