Comment on It's painful to not be able to see everything at once.

candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I need to be able to see what I’m referencing while working

  The constant swap between virtual desktops is a pain

  However I do wish material shell (tiling) treated separate monitors as separate virtual desktops so I could swap left>right and up>down

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  • NOPper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man, I’ve been running i3 at home for years and using Windows for work kills my efficiency so hard. Lemme have my billion virtual desktops and move tiles in half a second so I can stop dragging shit all over! I do use PowerToys to help a bit but it’s just not the same when you’re used to a kwyboard-centric workflow.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And when you have to have everything on the one small screen, outlook gets buried and you miss notifications

      Working from home I only miss notifications because I’m making coffee

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    • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You might be able to run WSL and just run a tiling wm/compositor inside that, depending on what it is you do and whether the company would allow WSL

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      • NOPper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Unfortunately we’re pretty locked down, and it’s not a big enough deal to me to force the issue with our super cool InfoSec team.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use multiple workspaces for different workflows. CAD software, reference material, etc. on one workspace, email, Slack, Trello etc. open on another.

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  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Different vd is different workspace for me. One for project x the next for y, one for gaming…

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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just tested if it works on GNOME, did couple swipes trying until I realized I have disabled trackpad in bios >.>

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  • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rip lol. I don’t think it works in gnome, I almost put that in my comment lol. It works in mint, but I’m not even sure if it’s in base ubuntu.

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    • aleph@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stock Gnome has this too.

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      • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Huh, I haven’t really gotten it to work very well in nobara, do you know what the keyboard shortcuts would be?

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    • VitabytesDev@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it works in GNOME.

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    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Win+scroll wheel works on GNOME btw

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      • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good to know, I’ll have to try that too

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• ramirezmike@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  tiling window managers with multiple desktops is such a productivity boost and makes single screen work effortless. I don’t think I’ll ever use a traditional floating window os again

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• nexas_XIII@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had that and had to explain to the department why 6 monitors essentially (3 physical monitors with 2 virtual desktops on each) was not the same as 6 other monitors (2 physical monitors with 3 virtual desktops on each).

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• meekah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use Xfce for my media laptop and was wondering why anyone would use virtual desktops when the buttons on the top panel are so tiny and annoying to click

  Then I recently found out you can move your cursor all the way to the left or right edge and scroll with your mouse wheel to switch virtual desktops.

  Made me consider actually using virtual desktops lol

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  • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a lot of keyboard and gesture shortcuts that make them easier to use on most OS’s

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Both!

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