I usea a tiling wm(sway) so workspaces are part of my workflow. 1: browsers 2: terminals 3: terminals(part 2) 4: chats(XMPP, LXMF, email...) 5: IDE(helix) 6: games(supertuxkart) 7: keepassxc 8: Tor browser 9: misc 0: music
Desktop 1 is for my music, browser, socials, maybe a yt video.
Desktop 2 is my work windows VM with spreadsheets and stuff
I miss Qtile's hackability. I basically rewrote the entire GroupBox widget, the master/stack layout algorithm, and the behaviour of workspaces to mimic AwesomeWM's tagging functionality.
I have 3 screens:
The second one has many many status widgets, Dolphin, fSearch and a Firefox window that's my media player, always in the background without any title bars or borders running the deezer webpage as WPA
The third one is connected with a 10m HDMI cable and is not running often, is just used to watch movies :-)
i use wm so workspaces. I have them as:
WEB: to spawn all web browsers. Clicking a link in a terminal or a pdf will open a tab or a new browser here.
TERM: to spawn all terminal applications and processes: Htop, ssh, vim windows to edit stuff...etc.
CODE: for GUI code editors like CodeBlocks, VSCode, Emacs. Yes I do use Vim but I prefer the full functions from these.
FILE: any file managers, e.g. pcmanfm, thunar, ranger...etc. I mostly use only one (pcmanfm) and use this workspace when I need to view complicate folder structures.
PDF: I read a lot of papers so usually qpdfview owns this worlspace. I used to have Mendeley here as well.
MEDIA: so any VLC, mplayer will spawn here
TODO: usually some notes I put down on a text editor will show here.
OTHER: the rest.
not sure if a virtual desktop is the same thing as workspaces in Gnome, but what I do is I only really open one window in one workspace. The first window I open since system startup goes into the first workspace, etc. Usually the first one is the browser (Librewolf).
The thing I'm supposed to be doing is on workspace 3...
If you swap one and four, That's how I use the monitors on my desktop
This is the way
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