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@rl_dane

Remember my complaint about out of the box mapping of just 12 desktops in different desktop environments like XFce?

Because of my different workflows I have 16 desktops predefined, just so I know, with the keyboard shortcut, where to jump to fast and continue where I left off. I only use the mouse when I absolutely have to, or when it's really elegant to do so, so I'm a keyboard shortcut mapping daemon.

I haven't taken the time yet to check into the configuration files, of my preferred Desktop Environments and Window Managers, how to map more keyboard shortcuts to More virtual desktops.

However I'm certain that what you want is scriptable, in at least three Desktop Environments and at least two Window Managers it's just not out of the box

I love digging into configuration files and I've seen this options in a few of them

I'm guessing it would require extensive retooling, but it would be neat if you could have a different number of virtual desktops on various Activities in #KDE #Plasma.

Like, my work activity has nine desktops, because I routinely need more than 4, and sometimes more than 6, but for my personal activity, I really only need one. ;)

2025, the year I switch from wayland to Xorg.

Why? Because I bought a new screen.
Huh? Well, I don't know either.
Plasma 6 on wayland worked fine with my fullhd-screen. Yesterday, I powered the box down, switched to my new hi(gher)dpi screen, powered it on, got the bios post, boot messages, and a black screen instead of sddm. An hour later I found that sddms wayland support is experimental still, so I switched it to X, and got a black screen when my plasma-wayland session was to start. So, switched to plasma-x11 and everything is fine.
Other compositor (tested sway) are fine. 🤷

Don't know if it's nixos or plasma, I'll probably try a live usb later.
So yeah, it's the year 2025 and I'm on X. Well, could be worse, could be the other X.

Something I miss from #Tiling wms/compositors like #i3wm and #sway when I'm on #KDE:

I use #Yakuake on KDE #Plasma to have a terminal that's easily accessible, but stays out of my way when I don't want to see it.

On tiling setups, I use disappearing windows (I forget the actual name of the feature) that will pop up when I hit super+-, appear one at a time, and then disappear.

Yakuake lets you do tiling as well within its window, but I kinda miss the ability to cycle through a bunch of windows very easily. I mean, I've got the keyboard shortcuts set up very nicely, so it's just F12 to make the window appear and disappear, and then control+tab to cycle through tabs or control+pgup/pgdown to jump between panes, but somehow the tiling setup is just a bit easier to do. Less thinking, just super+-. ;)

I don't know if I'll continue to use tiling setup too much longer, though. It's too aggravating to figure out how to get the occasional gnome program to work properly. There's always some kind of fancy library initialization that I fail to get right. It's easier to just use a DE and whittle it down to nearly tiling levels of productivity.

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