i'm confused by GNOME's behavior of automatically deleting desktop workspaces when they're empty, it breaks my assumption that certain programs are on a certain workspace number
does anyone know a way to turn this off ?
@orionwl in the Gnome Tweak Tool, you can select to have static workspaces, which sounds like what you might want.
@cbaines thank you, that worked !
hadn't expected it to be so easy 😀
@pete @cbaines heh—i'm no stranger to those 🙂
i used awesomewm on my previous laptop
the thing is, being able to script the WM in lua gives flexibility, but it's also yet another program to fix bugs in, to collect snippets for, to have to keep up to date with API changes
GNOME (with tweaks) works ok enough for me for now
@orionwl @cbaines Heh, I hate having to fiddle with windows sizes; awesomevm all the way. Works fine with qubes too: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/awesome/
@orionwl @cbaines heh, that's a good point! I use more than that, because I often have logs running, and I really like being able to flip which window has focus. But it should be doable to add the key functionality of tiling window managers to gnome with sufficiently clever shortcuts...
Heck, how hard could it be to give gnome workspaces a preferred window layout option? AwesomeWM already does that basically.
@livestradamus @orionwl @kekcoin @pete @cbaines That's what people told me in 2017 and it sucked.
@livestradamus @orionwl @kekcoin @pete @cbaines That's what people tell me every time.
@crunklord420 @kekcoin @livestradamus @pete @cbaines @orionwl "FuckYourCult" hahahahahah.
@verretor @kekcoin @livestradamus @crunklord420 @pete @cbaines @orionwl i3 is bloat, dwm is forever
@knarkzel @kekcoin @livestradamus @crunklord420 @pete @cbaines @orionwl I used dwm on my Raspberry Pi Zero. It couldn't handle much more than that.
@verretor @kekcoin @livestradamus @crunklord420 @pete @cbaines @orionwl been using dwm for about 1.5 years, loving it
@wanamingo @crunklord420 @cbaines @kekcoin @livestradamus @orionwl @pete @verretor tab mode is monocle mode in dwm, aka super + m
@wanamingo @cbaines @crunklord420 @kekcoin @livestradamus @orionwl @pete @verretor yeah man’s gotta get used to it. my usual workflow is spent in monocle mode, then super + tab’ing between two windows and using different workspaces / tags as they’re called in dwm
@wanamingo haven't used it but theres this patch https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/tab/
@kekcoin @verretor @crunklord420 @knarkzel @pete @cbaines @orionwl
@wanamingo also this https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/bartabgroups/
And there's probably others
@kekcoin @verretor @crunklord420 @knarkzel @pete @cbaines @orionwl
@verretor @knarkzel @kekcoin @livestradamus @crunklord420 @cbaines @orionwl I used to use xmonad on a truly terrible Thinkpad X120e. 1.6GHz AMD E-350 baby!
Cute though.
@pete @verretor @kekcoin @livestradamus @crunklord420 @cbaines @orionwl xmonad is quite the window manager
@knarkzel @kekcoin @livestradamus @verretor @crunklord420 @cbaines @orionwl dwm is bloat, xmonad forever. 😂
@pete @kekcoin @livestradamus @verretor @crunklord420 @cbaines @orionwl this is false!!!!!
@knarkzel @kekcoin @livestradamus @crunklord420 @pete @cbaines @orionwl Ah yes. Haskell.
@verretor It is actually pretty decent, I installed on an extra laptop recently and I was really pleased, but my daughter's laptop crashed so I let her have it.
@pete @orionwl @cbaines It's possible to give Gnome tiling functionality with https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/28/gtile/
Not sure about the fixed layout thing, it might also do that well enough for your needs.