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check this gnome plugin https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell
One of my best friends uses the Pop Shell [1] GNOME extension to bring in an i3-like experience. It seems to lag behind a few GNOME versions, but system76 has instructions on how to use it on other distributions if you don't want to use Pop!_OS [2]
[1] - https://github.com/pop-os/shell
Have a look at this gnome shell extension: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge
Well I kinda asked about i3 related problems not just generic linux desktop voes but I'll try my best.
> - I recently bought a monitor and plugged it in. Sound stopped working until I rebooted. Figured it out easily with pavucontrol of course (just toggling things) but only after reboot. Annoying but fair enough.
And that isn't a problem under GNOME ? Both use Pulseaudio...
Anyway I ended up resorting to writing some custom udev rules and some horrible hacks [0] to get my sound interface to work correctly; the interface was 2 in/4 out but it showed up as stereo in/4.0 out, and I needed dual mono + dual stereo outs. But as pulseaudio have no memory whatsoever on plugin config, it needs to be reapplied any time device is plugged in...
...and after upgrade ALSA of all things horribly broke it in different way [1], where someone added 500ms latency to default profile used to split device into sub-channels to"fix cracking" (that happened to only some users), and the interface I used was assigned that profile
Linux Sound story is by far my least liked part of it. And the new modern pipewire just hangs on my machine, not accepting any commands...
> Connecting/disconnecting monitors is flaky, sometimes it requires a few toggles in arandr (which already helps a lot). Maybe there is a better tool I could use?
I so far only experienced it with one flaky monitor at work, it looks like some deeply rooted problem. I guess if I had to solve it I'd just make some script trying to apply the profile and bind it to keys to quickly fix it. I don't think arandr is the culprit here, rather something between graphics server, driver, and monitor.
> Some wifi networks sometimes dont' work out of the box even though I'm just using the easy nm-applet.
I didn't had that problem in particular on laptop at least (also using nm-applet), but same thing works under GNOME ? IIRC it also uses network manager. We had some problems with users trying to use networkmanager for VPN and it not supporting all options plain OpenVPN did.
The most grief that networking gave me is actually systemd-resolved [2] but no good fix for that so far.
- [0] https://devrandom.eu/blog/post/2022-11-03_splitting_stereo_i...
- [1] https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf/issues/192#iss...
- [2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/27543
Well I kinda asked about i3 related problems not just generic linux desktop voes but I'll try my best.
> - I recently bought a monitor and plugged it in. Sound stopped working until I rebooted. Figured it out easily with pavucontrol of course (just toggling things) but only after reboot. Annoying but fair enough.
And that isn't a problem under GNOME ? Both use Pulseaudio...
Anyway I ended up resorting to writing some custom udev rules and some horrible hacks [0] to get my sound interface to work correctly; the interface was 2 in/4 out but it showed up as stereo in/4.0 out, and I needed dual mono + dual stereo outs. But as pulseaudio have no memory whatsoever on plugin config, it needs to be reapplied any time device is plugged in...
...and after upgrade ALSA of all things horribly broke it in different way [1], where someone added 500ms latency to default profile used to split device into sub-channels to"fix cracking" (that happened to only some users), and the interface I used was assigned that profile
Linux Sound story is by far my least liked part of it. And the new modern pipewire just hangs on my machine, not accepting any commands...
> Connecting/disconnecting monitors is flaky, sometimes it requires a few toggles in arandr (which already helps a lot). Maybe there is a better tool I could use?
I so far only experienced it with one flaky monitor at work, it looks like some deeply rooted problem. I guess if I had to solve it I'd just make some script trying to apply the profile and bind it to keys to quickly fix it. I don't think arandr is the culprit here, rather something between graphics server, driver, and monitor.
> Some wifi networks sometimes dont' work out of the box even though I'm just using the easy nm-applet.
I didn't had that problem in particular on laptop at least (also using nm-applet), but same thing works under GNOME ? IIRC it also uses network manager. We had some problems with users trying to use networkmanager for VPN and it not supporting all options plain OpenVPN did.
The most grief that networking gave me is actually systemd-resolved [2] but no good fix for that so far.
- [0] https://devrandom.eu/blog/post/2022-11-03_splitting_stereo_i...
- [1] https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf/issues/192#iss...
- [2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/27543
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