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Ephera, in How do you use your tiling window manager?

I have a very unusual workflow. In addition to not stacking windows, I don’t minimize them either. Instead, I spread them out over many workspaces. Per workspace, I usually only have 1 or 2 windows, but I ‘group’ workspaces to keep semantically related windows together.
And I do that, by having all workspaces in a column and just placing windows in neighboring workspaces + leaving workspaces empty between the groupings. I also have a minimap for my workspaces in my panel, to just keep track of all of this.

I like this workflow a lot, because it maps semantics to location. It feels like a desk where you just place related documents next to each other and might place some documents more in the middle, others in a faraway corner.

This is in contrast to the traditional Windows workflow or the workflow that many tiling folks use, where the first workspace is for web browsing etc…
Those use groupings based on the kind of task you do in them (often effectively being tabs in an application), like web browsing. They don’t group by the topic, e.g. you might frantically research ants and use a separate browser window, separate text editor etc., all grouped up for ants.

Now, traditional use of workspaces does allow this grouping by topics, by just assigning each workspace a topic. But personally, I found that too static.
Like, yeah, I have some larger, completely distinct topics, but often I’ll just quickly research bees and that’s kind of ant-related, but doesn’t need to be fully mixed with that either. I’d rather just place it to the side of the ant stuff.

mranderson17,

I do this too, but additionally group these outputs strategically on my 4 displays. I never thought of it like a desk with papers on it but that’s very much what it is. And also how I organize papers on the few occasions that I do that.

Hexarei, (edited )
@Hexarei@programming.dev avatar

That’s pretty much what I do as well. It was an absolute game-changer for me when I discovered tiling WMs some ~7 years ago, because it meant super consistent keyboard shortcuts for getting to exactly what I wanted to interact with. I know where individual apps/tasks go, so I put them there. And then when I need to switch to them, it’s as straightforward as Super+[workspace].

Also helps a ton that i3wm’s workspaces only take up a single monitor at a time, which makes it excellent for jumping between monitors.

None of this is set in stone, but I usually follow a relatively consistent pattern:

Center Monitor

  • 1: Primary/“serious tasks” web browser
  • 4: Any remote or virtualized desktop I might have open at the time
  • 6: Image/video editors. Also sometimes just misc usage.
  • 8: Development web browser next to neovim
  • 9: Steam/games
  • 10: Misc. Often a DBMS or file manager
  • 11: Misc. Often where I put any secondary tasks or second projects I need to reference
  • 12: Misc. Often where I’ll stick any long-running tasks that I just need to check on every now and again.

Left monitor

  • 2: Music/comms/task list

Right monitor

  • 3: Always only a terminal.
  • 5: Text editor to use as a
  • 7: Secondary/“wasting time” web browser
gudu,

There is two of us. Sidenote: my workspaces are all named after the topic they represent. E.g. dots, htmxpoc…

Ephera,

I don’t do that (again, too static for me), but I have larger meta-workspaces still, which group 20 workspaces each into very big, very distinct topics like “Orga” and “Work”.

Thcdenton, in I'm Done With Windows, Are you?

Not yet. I’m not upgrading windows again so the day draws near.

gugidugi, in Blender 4.0 Problems pls help ;-;

devtalk.blender.org/t/…/542I’d test 4.0.3 or 4.1 from the build bot builder.blender.org/download/daily/ to see if this is fixed or not. Then report a bug to blender.

Ibex0, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

Can’t wait to accidentally press it while gaming, just like the Windows key!

flan, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month
@flan@hexbear.net avatar

i dont really understand the revenue model here. i also dont understand how there’s going to be enough computational power to do LLM shit for all windows users all the time? this sounds bad for the environment.

sekhat,

Running a pre trained model is much cheaper than training one. But I’d imagine in this case you’ll be sending it over to Microsoft Servers, so they can keep track of everything you ever search so they can better advertise to you.

robber, in Linux Distros Evolution - January 2024 Update: Pop!_OS in Decline?

An interesting trend graph of the most used distros for gaming and their adoption by users over time.

princessnorah,
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yeah, the article mentions it in the first few sentences, but OP sure did bury the lede.

ulkesh, (edited ) in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

As long as it’s treated like a media key and not an intrusion of the standard, then I couldn’t care less. It’s a stupid idea, but Microsoft is so often full of those.

Edit> And after reading the article…of course MS is intruding on the standard just like they did with the windows key, but at least that one was turned into “meta” or “super”. I guess this will guarantee I won’t buy another MS keyboard.

Reil,

On the other hand… Super Duper Key.

ulkesh,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

Touché

pixelscript,

It’s Microsoft, intrusion of standards is their entire M.O.

It’s the “extend” in “embrace, extend, extinguish”.

erwan,

The Windows key turning into “super” and getting some use on Linux was just Linux DE finding a use for that key nobody asked for.

NOOBMASTER, (edited )

Couldn’t they just convert some existing unused key, like Scroll Lock? To be honest, even Pause/Break seems outdated to me.

F04118F, in (Blog) Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Stable, some clarifications

This is pretty sick. Not just flatpaks but easily install any application, using apt or dnf package managers, or deb or rpm files, in a container with a simple syntax. Wow. Wrap a GUI around it and this may be a winning formula for an easy and stable Linux desktop.

warmaster,

They are already doing it. Their forked gnome software takes deb packages too.

juli,

That’s not mentioned in the text.

Are you speaking of distrobox/toolbox? Which is available on any linux system.

ShiningWing,
@ShiningWing@lemmygrad.ml avatar

That’s not mentioned in this specific blog post, but that’s always been one of Vanilla OS’s defining features, it’s “apx” package manager to install those various types of packages

It’s even using Distrobox actually, but the point is to make it simpler to install packages for those contrainers, with the user not worrying as much about managing the individual containers, and not having to memorize the specific commands for each individual distro’s package manager

Basically, like the rest of Vanilla OS, the point isn’t that you can’t do this stuff elsewhere, it’s that it’s trying to make it easier to do it

frankenswine, in Friendly reminder

Or you opt for an operating system that lers you roll-back whole generations for when such a thing happens (GNU Guix for the win!)

Anticorp, in Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

It’s about as dangerous as using IE in the old days, or Edge in administrator mode.

small44, in What's your favorite music player on Linux?

Clementine

const_void,

Development on Clementine has slowed down considerably compared to Strawberry

charonn0,
@charonn0@startrek.website avatar

That’s kind of the point.

Clementine originally forked from Amarok 1.4 because Amarok 2.0 changed too much.

westyvw,

Yes but clementine still has features not yet in strawberry.

sabreW4K3,
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

Still Clementine for me.

mp04610,

I was using Clementine for a long time and switched to Strawberry about a year ago. Since they’re related, migrating libraries from one to the other was also possible.

antsu, in Friendly reminder

Timeshift with BTRFS kicks ass. I have mine set for daily snapshots, retained for a week. Only the changes between snapshots are stored, so the extra disk usage is minimal, and easily justified by the peace of mind in case of fuck-ups or broken updates.

dan, (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Only the changes between snapshots are stored, so the extra disk usage is minimal

If you want to use a similar approach for backups, Borgbackup is a pretty nice piece of software. I have two backups of my most important files: One on my NAS at home, and one “in the cloud” on a storage VPS (ends up way cheaper than using S3, B2 or anything like that).

NanoooK,

Which storage VPS have you selected? I’m looking at Hetzner atm.

dan, (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I’ve got one with HostHatch that’s 10TB of space for $10/month. It was an offer they had during Black Friday 2020. They had a similar offer during Black Friday 2023 but I think it was around $20/month, paid yearly.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and my storage server is in Los Angeles, which is around 10ms round-trip ping time from my home internet connection.

Hetzner is good too. They have relatively cheap “storage boxes” that are a shared environment rather than a VPS. You don’t get proper SSH access, but they do support FTPS, SFTP, Samba, Borgbackup, Restic, rclone, rsync and WebDAV. www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

Borgbackup encrypts the backups, so the host won’t be able to actually view your backups.

jelloeater85,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

Just make sure you back up your stuff to a second disk❤️

uzay, in Thoughts on this?

As an enduser my only noticeable issue with Wayland is that Auto-Type with KeepassXC doesn’t work.

jw13,

Yeah, that one is annoying.

Deebster,
@Deebster@programming.dev avatar

Yeah, that one is annoying.

What one?

jw13,

Auto-type not working.

Deebster,
@Deebster@programming.dev avatar

Huh, that’s weird: when I posted, I saw your your comment as a top-level comment but I now I see it as a reply. Maybe it’s a Lemmy bug; I’ll keep an eye out in future.

Telodzrum,

Auto-Type will be disabled when run with a Wayland compositor on Linux. To use Auto-Type in this environment, you must set QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb or start KeePassXC with the -platform xcb command-line flag.

keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_auto_type

This works for me.

uzay,

I tried that, but neither option seems to work. At least not in Wayland programs, like Firefox. It works in Chromium because iirc that runs in Xwayland. That doesn’t solve my issue with Wayland though.

wolf, in Happy new year of the Linux Desktop!

It will be a pleasure, like every other year of the Linux Desktop™ for more than 20 years now! :-)

Olap, in Thoughts on this?

He ain’t wrong. Replacing X11 wasn’t a great idea and not invented here was all over Wayland, especially with the Mir proposals. SystemD also gets this accusation but people seem to like working in it/with it, and so doesn’t get the level of criticism now.

It will be really interesting to see if Wayland maintains momentum over the next few years, or if it’s own tech debt will cripple it. Ideally we want to see if we can bridge the Android divide in the GUI space imo, which Wayland may have more potential to do

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