I miss Qtile’s hackability. I basically rewrote the entire GroupBox widget, the master/stack layout algorithm, and the behaviour of workspaces to mimic AwesomeWM’s tagging functionality.
Can’t tell from the screenshot (need moar pixels), but that reminds me of the old software that would give Windows XP, 6 workspaces… It was so amazing but would utterly kill my old PIII with 192MB of RAM.
Reminds me of compiz in the old school days. The desktop cube was the (impractical) shit!
I never got into these at all. My coworker thought it was crazy that I never did. I just get a bigger monitor to fit all my stuff, lol. Right now, it’s a 49" ultrawide and have no issues.
I got a 3x3 grid and now I swim accross them so naturally, visually and intuitively that I cannot stand anything else, 1 for spotify/system properties, 2 for firefox, 3 for thunderbird, the rest thematic for ocassional folder and dedicated programs, any one (two for diagonals) shortcut away from any other (win_key+arrows, with ctrl and shift combinations for window movement/fitting)… I will never comply back to anything else
I use Super Key + A and S instead of the arrow keys to be able to do it with one hand.
Oh, I must explore it again, though some of those had already common usage… I have redundantly the Super + hjkl ala vim and use them also quite often
I have this set up and recently transitioned to using the numpad to jump to desktops so it’s always one move
I indeed have the Super associated with arrows, the numbers and the hjkl ala vim, it became so intituive that I am even not sure which one I use more often since is usually task dependent…
Is it just me who has the multiple shame workspaces of totally not abandoned personal projects?
Yeah, every so often, I’ll accidentally switch over and think to myself that I should do something on that.
But I’ve kind of gotten messy with them and they’re more just wallpaper colors and rough topics now, which makes it easier to silently start re-using workspaces for new, exciting projects.
They’re great for work from home, especially when sharing screens. My background and task panel changes when I change desktops, and a script controls which Firefox profile is the default.
So one VD is work, another is play.
Yep, really only use them at home
-Native desktop is for random shit
-“Fun” is for games, and… Fun stuff
-“Work Shit” is work shit
-“Bidness” is for home stuff that’s not necessarily mindless entertainment. Banking, home projects, etc
“Schoo” is for college
Bidness desktop is the only one that’s a giant beast. So many windows and tabs, each FF instance is relating to a home project with a ton of tabs, can be car shit, electronics, networking, whatever. So much shit. It’s like having too many tabs open but exponentially bad.
I tried using them but in the end it becomes too much of a hassle. I tried doing a work-out work kind of setup with my laptop but it’s more cumbersome to maintain than just closing it all
If you swap one and four, That’s how I use the monitors on my desktop
- where I put all the shit I’m currently working on and totally forget about it.
This post made me look into virtual desktops on my laptop and I can easily double the current amount of desktops from 2-4 under settings.
Biggest problem with that is that I almost never use more than my first virtual desktop unless I’m working on multiple things and need to switch to not get caught working on one of them over the other.
At work I tend to have like 3 workspaces just for stuff I need to be doing. Different projects. My second monitor tends to be reserved for the documentation etc that I need for that project. Then there are multiple workspaces with terminals for ssh, screenshares, and other terminal hackeroni. And one for messages etc.
I prefer to use i3 or away for this but unfortunately not every workplace lets you have that
I sometimes use virtual desktops if I have a lot of stuff going on at once. Though, with a duel monitor set up, I hardly need it. My commands are a simple Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right Arrow Keys
Desktop 1: The things I need to do (applying for jobs) Desktop 2: The other things I should do (building relevant career skills) Desktop 3: The things I actually do (random hobbies & volunteer work) Desktop 4: I have no fucking clue, maybe reddit?
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Lordy.
I’ve always used virtual desktops, but my life changed when I realized I could chain tags in herbstluftwm. Now I have music player, visualize, & todos always on monitor 1. Then I have Meta-[1-5] bound to switch monitors 2 & 3 in sync between virtual workspaces:
1: programming, web on 2, editor on 3 2: remote, terminals into VPSes and LAN computers, and gotop 3: communications, IM chats on 2, email, Matrix, irc, discourse, SMS bridge on 3 4; random, Factorio or movie on 3, and often Vial on 2, because. 5: more random, usually Darktable, Gimp, Inkscape or some combination depending.
I don’t have 6-9 bound, because 4 or 5 are usually free for whatever.
And if it’s long standing then throw stuff from 4 on 10.
