Linux brains…
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@TheTomas ahah! Do you find it as responsive? I think that’s the real defining difference from the “we have that at home” implementations I’ve tried.
@SecurityWriter @TheTomas The gesture works well, but Gnome doesn’t have the maximise-to-a-new-workspace feature as far as I know.
You might be able to make something using KWin in KDE … but it’d need to be handcrafted and there are some apps that don’t play well with KWin.
Signed, a Mac user who is also trying to switch to Linux.
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Linux brains…
You know how MacOS creates a workspace when you make an app full screen, and you can gesture with three fingers between them… is there a Linux equivalent? It probably has a pretentious name, but I don’t store them in the ol’ melon.
Windows’ implementation is terrible. So that’s the baseline.
I’ve seen workspaces in Linux for decades now, but it’s been pretty clunky comparatively. I can’t tell you how productive this really simple interaction makes me.
Some of it is likely down to the MacBook touchpads being the gold standard, but I do have a Lenovo one that isn’t terrible.
@SecurityWriter in i3, those are also workspaces. mod key plus a number jumps right to them (I use the windows key for mod), mod+shift+number flings windows to them, use the arrow keys for running up and down through them.
I have to use macOS for work; I use linux and i3 on my own laptop; and it's only the work laptop where five or six times a week I have to take a deep breath to stop myself standing up, opening a window and flinging the fucking thing out into the void in frustration.
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Linux brains…
You know how MacOS creates a workspace when you make an app full screen, and you can gesture with three fingers between them… is there a Linux equivalent? It probably has a pretentious name, but I don’t store them in the ol’ melon.
Windows’ implementation is terrible. So that’s the baseline.
I’ve seen workspaces in Linux for decades now, but it’s been pretty clunky comparatively. I can’t tell you how productive this really simple interaction makes me.
Some of it is likely down to the MacBook touchpads being the gold standard, but I do have a Lenovo one that isn’t terrible.
@SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange it depends hugely on the desktop environment, I believe in KDE there is a way to keybind this and/or attach it to mouse gestures
as for how well that works with a touch pad, I don't know since I use keybinds heavily, but I think it'd work at least -
@SecurityWriter As Ex-Apple User I do understand you in missing Expose and other gestures. For me Gnome with its 3-finger Swipes works perfectly on a Thinkpad T480.
@TheTomas I use something like this on KDE. It's a nice little feature.
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Linux brains…
You know how MacOS creates a workspace when you make an app full screen, and you can gesture with three fingers between them… is there a Linux equivalent? It probably has a pretentious name, but I don’t store them in the ol’ melon.
Windows’ implementation is terrible. So that’s the baseline.
I’ve seen workspaces in Linux for decades now, but it’s been pretty clunky comparatively. I can’t tell you how productive this really simple interaction makes me.
Some of it is likely down to the MacBook touchpads being the gold standard, but I do have a Lenovo one that isn’t terrible.
@SecurityWriter Gnome workspaces respond to three finger swipes, but I prefer Ctrl+<left arrow> and Ctrl+<right arrow> bindings so I never take my hands off the keyboard.
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@SecurityWriter That sounds handy... went looking. Touchegg appears to be what you're looking for
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/touchpad-gestures@SecurityWriter oh, not having any reason to look previously... Linux Mint Cinnamon has it baked in apparently, just needs to be enabled
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Linux brains…
You know how MacOS creates a workspace when you make an app full screen, and you can gesture with three fingers between them… is there a Linux equivalent? It probably has a pretentious name, but I don’t store them in the ol’ melon.
Windows’ implementation is terrible. So that’s the baseline.
I’ve seen workspaces in Linux for decades now, but it’s been pretty clunky comparatively. I can’t tell you how productive this really simple interaction makes me.
Some of it is likely down to the MacBook touchpads being the gold standard, but I do have a Lenovo one that isn’t terrible.
@SecurityWriter You can use 4 fingers ? I thinks it's implemented in gnome and KDE. -
Linux brains…
You know how MacOS creates a workspace when you make an app full screen, and you can gesture with three fingers between them… is there a Linux equivalent? It probably has a pretentious name, but I don’t store them in the ol’ melon.
Windows’ implementation is terrible. So that’s the baseline.
I’ve seen workspaces in Linux for decades now, but it’s been pretty clunky comparatively. I can’t tell you how productive this really simple interaction makes me.
Some of it is likely down to the MacBook touchpads being the gold standard, but I do have a Lenovo one that isn’t terrible.
@SecurityWriter
> MacOS creates a workspace when you make an app full screenI like that but I don't know how to do that with #gnome or #kde unfortunately.
For the three fingers gesture, I guess it was not your main question and there is a lot of answer.
I didn't try to create a window rule with KDE, maybe it is possible to achieve that actually!! ( that's a #question for someone that use #plasma )
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Linux brains…
You know how MacOS creates a workspace when you make an app full screen, and you can gesture with three fingers between them… is there a Linux equivalent? It probably has a pretentious name, but I don’t store them in the ol’ melon.
Windows’ implementation is terrible. So that’s the baseline.
I’ve seen workspaces in Linux for decades now, but it’s been pretty clunky comparatively. I can’t tell you how productive this really simple interaction makes me.
Some of it is likely down to the MacBook touchpads being the gold standard, but I do have a Lenovo one that isn’t terrible.
@SecurityWriter the window manager Niri is that if it was considered holistically alongside everything else rather than an afterthought made mostly to look nice.
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@SecurityWriter @TheTomas The gesture works well, but Gnome doesn’t have the maximise-to-a-new-workspace feature as far as I know.
You might be able to make something using KWin in KDE … but it’d need to be handcrafted and there are some apps that don’t play well with KWin.
Signed, a Mac user who is also trying to switch to Linux.
@Fishd @SecurityWriter Yep, but there's an Gnome Extension for this (I do not use it, just FYI)
These are the Extensions I am using:
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Linux brains…
You know how MacOS creates a workspace when you make an app full screen, and you can gesture with three fingers between them… is there a Linux equivalent? It probably has a pretentious name, but I don’t store them in the ol’ melon.
Windows’ implementation is terrible. So that’s the baseline.
I’ve seen workspaces in Linux for decades now, but it’s been pretty clunky comparatively. I can’t tell you how productive this really simple interaction makes me.
Some of it is likely down to the MacBook touchpads being the gold standard, but I do have a Lenovo one that isn’t terrible.
@SecurityWriter try tiling and pop! os
Different workflows, but same ideas
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Linux brains…
You know how MacOS creates a workspace when you make an app full screen, and you can gesture with three fingers between them… is there a Linux equivalent? It probably has a pretentious name, but I don’t store them in the ol’ melon.
Windows’ implementation is terrible. So that’s the baseline.
I’ve seen workspaces in Linux for decades now, but it’s been pretty clunky comparatively. I can’t tell you how productive this really simple interaction makes me.
Some of it is likely down to the MacBook touchpads being the gold standard, but I do have a Lenovo one that isn’t terrible.
@SecurityWriter there is FullScreenify for KDE Plasma, it does the the Fullscreen Thing. Touch Gestures should work oob.
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Linux brains…
You know how MacOS creates a workspace when you make an app full screen, and you can gesture with three fingers between them… is there a Linux equivalent? It probably has a pretentious name, but I don’t store them in the ol’ melon.
Windows’ implementation is terrible. So that’s the baseline.
I’ve seen workspaces in Linux for decades now, but it’s been pretty clunky comparatively. I can’t tell you how productive this really simple interaction makes me.
Some of it is likely down to the MacBook touchpads being the gold standard, but I do have a Lenovo one that isn’t terrible.
There's the actual multiple workspaces thing that's been around forever - not exactly like the Mac version, but lets you easily flip between different desktops / screens full of windows / whatever.
I use Cinnamon, so once you configure multiple workspaces, you can switch with ctrl-alt-left-arrow and -right-arrow. I don't recall if the hotkeys are different in Gnome or KDE or whatever, and I haven't used those in a decade or more, so I'd probably be wrong anyway - but every desktop at least used to support the same thing.
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@SecurityWriter That sounds handy... went looking. Touchegg appears to be what you're looking for
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/touchpad-gestures@musing_sys@social.fringesec.ca @SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange This looks very outdated. All functionality shown in the article is long since part of base gnome at this point.
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@SecurityWriter Switchting between workspaces on GNOME works with the 3 finger gesture as well.
Do you mean something else? Something that MacOS does, that is more than switching between Workspaces?
@sheogorath yeah, MacOS makes full screen apps their own ‘workspaces’ but good to know the other piece is there.
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@SecurityWriter oh, not having any reason to look previously... Linux Mint Cinnamon has it baked in apparently, just needs to be enabled
@musing_sys appreciated, I’ll have a look!
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