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Sliding Tiling Window Management akin to PaperWM for Gnome.

[–] millie@lemmy.film 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally just button remapping support for my MX Ergo.

And for the fool who always comes into these threads to tell me again that I must not have tried in several years, I tried last month. Talked to the Solaar dev, tried to reach out to Logitech, literally nothing to be done.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's not much I'm "dying" for in Cinnamon; it's very complete.

I wouldn't mind if the Nemo Actions system got a GUI editor. I think it's such a little known feature...if you go to ~/local/share/nemo/actions, you can add config files that can add items to the right click context menu, including but not limited to shell scripts. I have a few basic ImageMagick scripts that allow me to do things like edit images or convert them from one file format to another just by right clicking a file.

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[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I saw the cool feature of ChromeOS Desktop where you can save all open Window states inside a Workspace and resume them on another day again. Never used it on ChromeOS as I am not sure how but this seems easily possible soon with Plasma 6 where you can hibernate or rather store the current state of your Window.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some kind of easy notification system and panel/dock/taskbar notification emblems. The support for stuff like that is incredibly spotty right now and is one of the final things preventing me from switching off windows.

EDIT: Have found a decent solution to this via Dash to Panel. I have been running Zorin OS for over the last month now on my main PCs!

Yes, along with wobbly and exploding windows!

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GNOME mouse navigation + I3/Sway keyboard navigation.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like GNOME with a tiling extension such as Forge.

[–] i_lost_my_bagel@seriously.iamincredibly.gay 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wayland needs stacking window managers that aren't just KDE and Gnome. I want more things like openbox. There's labwc but that's it.

And also Wayland needs more customization programs designed around stacking window managers. Waybar, yambar, and others are all only designed for tiling window managers.

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[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

XFCE, press f4 to open a terminal pane at the bottom of the file manager, like in KDE.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I mean... you can already open a terminal to the current directory. But I'm not sure why I would want the terminal to be opened inside the file manager?

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sometimes I just need to type one or two quick commands, maybe at the current path. I don't think this is necessarily to do a lot of work, it's just to give some more flexibility. I can see myself tapping F4, typing "chown blabla something", tapping F4 again, or similar because it's quick and easy.

Nothing wrong in having options that some might find useful sometimes. As long as it doesn't bother those who don't use it.

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[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Why waste desktop use lot window, when few window do trick?

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[–] prunerye@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

A GUI to build these EWWidgets I suck at making. The only reason I'm using them is the fancy animations, otherwise xfce4-panel or tint2 would be fine.

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I already have everything. I use Sway... :)

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