[Plasma] To demonstrate the power of Flex Tape…
I sawed this panel in half!
I’ve never seen anyone do this. It seemed like a good idea & it was. It’s very nice. It’s not very fancy besides the split bottom panel & the status bar on the left. I’m using Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn for the wallpaper & the Plasma style, application style, & window decorations are Oxygen. The audio visualizer on the right bottom panel is Panon. The comic is Freefall by Mark Stanley.
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How much does the video background slow down your computer ?
I have an ultrawide so I like splitting the panels WAY up. It’s just so much wasted space, otherwise. Lumping it all together in the center makes it intrusive again, but pushing everything out to the side and along the bottom are the areas that are most out of focus but still at-a-glance.
The App Launcher is set to autohide. In order to get this to work, make sure you set the Visibility for the floating panels to “Windows go below”, otherwise it stacks them out on separate rows and looks awful.
How you got split bottom panel and that sidebar?? Plasma specific?
@checksout I missed this!
I got the split panel & side bar by just making two more panels. Plasma lets you add extra panels & put them on whichever side of the screen you want. For the two bottom panels I had to manually adjust their sizes so they would only fill the left half or the right half of the bottom. You can probably do this with other desktops that have panels or if you only have a window manager & a bar there’s probably a way to duplicate that bar. I think I’ve seen similar things done with Waybar but I don’t know if it’s really two bars or if it’s just visual. I’m only familiar with Plasma so I have no idea how to do this with anything else.
