R.L. Dane    🍵 Feb 20

9 days worth of updates on #Fedora #KDE #Plasma.

When I say the KDE components are nearly #RollingRelease, I mean it. XD

Transaction Summary: Installing: 7 packages Upgrading: 478 packages Replacing: 478 packages Removing: 5 packages Total size of inbound packages is 933 MiB. Need to download 933 MiB. After this operation, 50 MiB extra will be used (install 2 GiB, remove 2 GiB).
Show threaddet (θΔ)Feb 20
@rl_dane i would say "yet another reason to not daily drive kde"
...but i daily drive arch linux
i cant say shit
Show threadMy name is GordoFeb 20
@det @rl_dane It is a pretty fantastic DE though.
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Feb 20

@gordoooo_z @det

It's a great DE for those who want a DE. :)

Show threaddet (θΔ)Feb 20
@rl_dane @gordoooo_z haha, yeahhh
for those who want a de
Show threadMy name is GordoFeb 20
@det @rl_dane well yeah, I figured that part went without saying, lol. I'm happiest in i3 personally, but I've somehow become a laptop person in the last couple years, and i3 [at least the way I use it] sucks on a 14" laptop.
Show threaddet (θΔ)Feb 20
@gordoooo_z @rl_dane hahaha, for me, its almost the inverse
i prefer tiling on laptops and floating on desktops
at least we can agree on i3, i use sway which from the endusers side of things is damn near identical to i3, to me at least
Show threadMy name is GordoFeb 20
@det @rl_dane Yeah, the thought has occurred to me recently that once I do get my office back in order and start working at my desktop again every day, I'm probably going to have to get used to Sway finally. At this point, I've pretty much adjusted to Wayland on every other device/install. I just hope there isn't too much weirdness when it comes to adapting my config. Off the top of my head, whatever I used as a colour picker is definitely going to have to be replaced.
Show threadMy name is GordoFeb 20
@det @rl_dane The laptop just kind of defeats the purpose for me. I don't really like toggling between windows if I have the option to tile everything I need instead, but on a laptop this size (or any single 1080p screen tbh), that's just not going to happen, twm or no twm. So I tend to just Meta+▶ and Meta+◀ two windows side by side, and get on with it.
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Feb 20

@gordoooo_z @det

I find tabbing works best for me. I don't usually use actual tiling unless I really want to watch a couple things side-by-side.

Show threadMy name is GordoFeb 20

@rl_dane @det I almost completely ignore tabbing as an option. I set my i3 up to simulate the way workspaces work in other DEs, so instead of it switching the monitor that has docus to a different workspace, while my other monitor stays the same, I set up say 10 workspace, but then I have 5 shortcuts, each of which switches my primary monitor to an even numbered workspace, and the secondary to an odd one, so Meta+1 (or something like that) will display workspaces 1 and 2 across my two monitors; Meta+2 is ws 3 and 4; so on and so forth. I think i have a total of 10 actual i3 workspaces, which act like 5 of what I consider a workspace.

And basically I have different groups of windows for different tasks on different workspaces, so I can switch contexts rapidly with very little rearranging of windows.

Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 

@gordoooo_z @det

Oh, that's neat.

I only briefly used i3 with dual monitors, so I don't have much experience with that.

When I was using KDE with dual monitors, I always kept the windows on the left (laptop) monitor pinned onto all workspaces.

Feb 20 at 7:27pmWeb
Show threadMy name is GordoFeb 20
@rl_dane @det depending on my mood on any given day, I can be very distractible, so managing "contexts" is far more functional for me than managing windows, if that makes any sense. Plus, I just like to be able to jump over to the last workspace when its time for a break or after work, which is where I tend to keep my browser windows full of tabs I haven't read (/watched) yet, and my work stuff is still ready for me when the time comes to get back to it, but neatly tucked out of view.
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Feb 20

@gordoooo_z @det

You might be interested in [this script], which I wrote for i3 (and then sway) to give me the number of the next unused workspace.

I use it with a keybind to jump to the next available workspace. (Admittedly, I haven't used it in ages, but I just don't use workspaces in i3/sway very much XD )

scripts/new_workspace at main

scripts - Some of my scripts that I wrote, which I use daily

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