How many others are loving the “per-screen virtual desktops” feature introduced with 6.7?
It seems there’s a small (?) contingent of people who’ve been clamouring for this ever since multi-monitor setups became commonplace. Then there’s a whole nother load of people who don’t care.
Do many people here even use multiple workspaces? I know many just have all apps open on the visible workspace and alt-tab between them.
I need to try that. I used to use multiple workspaces all the time. Then I started having to remote into windows for work, so i got more monitors. Now I use multiple workspaces a lot less.
I always found it weird: if I was on linux a single monitor was more than enough because I have multiple work spaces. Whereas on windows, I need multiple monitors. Windows: always the worst way to accomplish anything.
In my case (blessed with not having to work with Windows), the kludgy feel of how workspaces previously worked with multiple monitors has sometimes made me not bother connecting them up.
The old way tries to merge the two monitors into a single screen, and so when your monitors have different resolutions, your “single screen” is now sort of L-shaped. Which would cause weird effects on some DEs where for instance dragging a window off the edge of the smaller monitor wouldn’t work, as width of the “single screen” was taken to be the width of the larger monitor not the smaller one. (I must add that KDE is not one of these DEs, and you can drag off the edge like that)
There are still some behaviours with per-screen virtual desktops that I hope might be fixed in future - such as “Zoom Desktop” (Meta+mousewheel). I use this quite a bit for reducing the black bars on extra wide aspect ratio films, and it does zoom both monitors at the moment. I don’t know if it’d be practical to have this feature just zoom one desktop, but it would be great for me when I’m working and have Netflix on at the same time.
I would have a use for it at $DAYJOB, but unfortunately my work laptop is on an ancient version of Ubuntu, so gonna be a few more years before I can use it…
The LTS I assume? That’s annoying, my VPS has been on 24.04 and I’m looking forward to upgrading to 26.04 just for the newer PHP version (without using a 3rd party PPA). I’m waiting for 26.04.01 before making the move.
Still waiting on NixOS unstable
6.7 was in fedora stable the day after the announcement. Wonder how long 6.7.1 will take?
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