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sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoFour the overviews of all the Latest ndows, what I like to do is use the cornor hotspot feature, so I just fling the mouse to the bottom corner to open the overview of all the windows (it’s in the settings, you can customise what each of the corners do!)
Nice that you got the numberpad thing working! I might need to try that soon
I really had to go digging for that Howdy fork, once I get back to my laptop I will let you know the link for reference
Hopefully you will eventually join the penguin side!
Lemmyme@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Thank you so very much for sharing this specific Howdy fork that worked for you! When I do eventually make the Linux switch I am going to try and get this going, and I’ll share if I figure out anything specific to running Linux on our laptop. Until then I am playing around with Linux on an older device which I don’t really mind having break to see what works for me. I guess the orange indicator light for the microphone kill switch for you worked for you and not for me because perhaps there was some update not reflected on the Fedora download I used to boot from the USB. That gives hope that perhaps the camera kill switch might work in the future too with some kernel update. Anyway, amazing and lucky that our laptop model works so well with Linux as is! I think your use of the corner hotspot feature to get to the hotspot feature is better than the four-finger gesture for KDE. I still find a three-finger gesture is preferable for trackpad navigation (trackpad usability being the original subject or discussion). I found two Gnome extensions called “Copyous” and “Tiling Assistent” which solved the two headaches where KDE seemed better to me. I think that Gnome’s gesture swiping into an overview of everything is even better than Windows because it lets you raise the windows up just a little bit to take a peek at what’s going on. I also really like having the time top and center all the time too.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
While I was using GNOME (with Fedora Workstation), the three finger gesture worked for me out of the box and was quite nice indeed. I switched to KDE for better customisability, but if you prefer the padded libadwaita aesthetic of GNOME, it’s also a great choice! They’re both much better than Windows 11 in my opinion…