It's exactly how it works but only if you have mutliple screens. My comment was that, for this reason, 2 or 3 smaller (ish- ~27") 16:9 4k screens [1] (previously, 4–6 even smaller 4:3 screens) works much better for me because I can switch the spaces on my Macbook and i3/Sway virtual desktops on my Linux machine individually for each screen. If we're talking about having a smaller number of giant screens it would... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
The nicities that I pull would be the file browser from ROX, and a tiling window manager such as herbstluftwm. I could do everything I do today without these, such as with a terminal or OpenBSD's 'cwm', but I really enjoy using them! Source: almost 2 years ago
While people are discussing window managers, one of the most overlooked window manager is: hersbtluftwm.[0] If you even work with multiple monitors, give it a try. It uses the monitor swapping feature from xmonad but comes with simplicity of editing the config (one doesn't need to learn new programming language to edit config). It's a pretty cool window manager! [0]: https://herbstluftwm.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Herbstluftwm (https://herbstluftwm.org/) has two ways to achieve what you want. And it plays nice with XFCE (and probably KDE) so you don't have to give up a traditional DE to use it. Source: over 2 years ago
I can forgive not including tiling WMs like i3, notion, and herbstluftwm because tiling WMs are, by nature, not very photogenic. But leaving out KDE Plasma, WindowMaker, amiwm, or Enlightenment too? I want my money back! :). Source: over 2 years ago
A small Python script gets updates about workspace status from herbstluftwm (the window manager I use), and sends them to the keyboard via its serial port. The keyboard then runs the plugin, which displays the assigned colors when Cmd/Win/Mod4 (the key I use for window management) is held. Source: over 2 years ago
In terms of tiling and dynamic window managers, I only know of herbstluftwm, which is written in C++ and Python. There are some stacking window managers written in C++ but I don't have any experience using them so I don't know if there what your looking for. Source: almost 3 years ago
To get this Desktop I used a standard install of Fedora 34 where I installed the Xfce4 desktop and the HerbstluftWM. Both I get from the standard repository. I think you can get them in the most distros. If not here is the link for Herbstluftwm: https://herbstluftwm.org/. Source: about 3 years ago
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