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#1 2018-12-13 08:11:24
- Pastah
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Separate Virtual Desktops for each monitor?
I'm running a dual monitor setup and I am wondering if there's a DE that has separate virtual desktops for each monitor meaning that if you switch to a different virtual desktop on one monitor then the other monitor shouldn't switch but stay on its current virtual desktop.
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#2 2018-12-13 08:45:34
- seth
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Re: Separate Virtual Desktops for each monitor?
It's a window manager feature, rather found in the tiling ones:
https://superuser.com/questions/338784/ … -workspace
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#3 2018-12-13 13:20:53
- Pastah
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Re: Separate Virtual Desktops for each monitor?
It's a window manager feature, rather found in the tiling ones:
https://superuser.com/questions/338784/ … -workspace
I want to avoid using window managers like that and would prefer full DEs. Apparently the documentation for awesome on the arch wiki is outdated. And i3wm isn't good for floating windows.
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#4 2018-12-13 13:48:29
- seth
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Re: Separate Virtual Desktops for each monitor?
Window managers are an essential part of any desktop environment - you'll not easily be able to substitute the gnome WM, but eg. the KDE one.
The docu isn't outdated but a couple of links are.
Tiling WMs are inheritly "not good" for floating windows, because they're no stacking WMs.
Enlightenment would provide a "desktop environment" and its WM is listed to support this, but idk first hand.
KWin (KDE/palsma) has a scripting interface that probably would allow to write such behavior (because it's actually just managing the visibility of windows)
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#5 2018-12-13 21:11:02
- desaparecido
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Re: Separate Virtual Desktops for each monitor?
Default configuration in Awesome does that, and is really easy to use, and there a lot of option to customize, I don't know if is still possible to do, but you was able to change your windows manager in KDE to use Awesome, resulting in a complete KDE DE with all advantages is Awesome WM
KF5 & Plasma5 (git versions) - Awesome WM
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX - AMD FX8350 - ATI Radeon HD 7970
[testing] repo
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#6 2018-12-15 02:27:33
- werkman2
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Re: Separate Virtual Desktops for each monitor?
Default configuration in Awesome does that, and is really easy to use, and there a lot of option to customize, I don't know if is still possible to do, but you was able to change your windows manager in KDE to use Awesome, resulting in a complete KDE DE with all advantages is Awesome WM
with kde you can change the window manager, but i dont know if the "window rules settings" would work, since they apply to kwin.
but the feature o.p. wants can be made in kde window rules settings, but i cant remember how.
in the kde store you can download pre made rules for the window manager that kde uses, maybe should check in there.
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#7 2018-12-15 08:42:49
- seth
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Re: Separate Virtual Desktops for each monitor?
The rules can pin windows to VDs and show them on certain ouputs, but you can't use them to create the behavior that OP wants.
KWin also has a script interface and you can certainly script such functionality, but it won't be integrated otherwise (scrolling the desktop window or click the pagers etc.)
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