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logrusx
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 Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:18 pm Post subject: Use an external monitor as a separate workspace in Mate? |
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Is there somebody who can tell me if that's even possible? I want to have something on my external monitor which stays there when I switch workspace on my laptop integrated display, just like Gnome does. I don't want to use Gnome for a number of reasons. Sadly, the number has only been increasing for the past few years.
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IIRC this is not possible with mate., but maybe with good old Compiz?!
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| Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| CooSee wrote: | IIRC this is not possible with mate., but maybe with good old Compiz?!
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Is this still a thing?
EDIT: Ah, it's a X11 WM. It looks like I'm stuck with the crap Gnome developers have made of Gnome. |
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what about this https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-wayland-session <<< wayland session using wayfire for the MATE desktop
or switch to Hyprland and use the dotfiles from https://github.com/prasanthrangan/hyprdots - best dotfiles of all.
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I have to see if I can make an ebuild for that. Looks like the easier option for me than the one below.
| CooSee wrote: | | or switch to Hyprland |
I'm afraid that looks and sounds like too much configuration and tinkering to get basic stuff done for me.
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| Quote: | | I'm afraid that looks and sounds like too much configuration and tinkering to get basic stuff done for me. |
at first, it seems bit much, but after a while you'll see that many options are really well configured also well documented, regarding Hyprdots.
i installed Endeavour OS on a separate disk with no Desktop at all (don't forget the devel packages), git cloned the repo to users home, e.g. ~/Hyprdots, executed the install script as User also better use paru and not yay, configured it to my liking,
tried many things to get comfortable, copied and used the user settings for my Gentoo System.
it took a while to get through all the options and scripts - i use Openrc - Hyprdots are specified heavily for Arch and Systend.
now, everything is working perfect !
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Almost an year later I got fed up by Gnome. Hyprdots is not maintained anymore but its successor is HyDE. Back then I tried it in a VM as per your recommendation but it was too much to handle at once, so I abandoned it. Now I did it in an arch docker container. It's a lot faster that way and way more convenient as you can copy/paste back and forth. Within the VM there's no convenient way to do that. The installation fails at the end but it's irrelevant as its modifying something in systemd services.
The most tedious part is to pick packages from the container output. I've also saved all the lists of packages pacman displayed so that I can emerge something if I missed it.
I started just with the Hyprland Wiki page and adding binds for terminal and firefox. This made it possible to run Hyprland very easily for some time and alleviated the overwhelming feeling of having too much to handle at once. One can start using Hyprland gradually, figuring things out piece by piece. The most important thing is to add binds for the most important programs and them build up on that.
I find the default configuration to be more intuitive and easy to get used to. Also it's very minimal so you can build up on your already existing habits.
And most importantly the video performance is fine!
I hope I will soon be able to completely move off of Gnome.
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