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Do any modern desktop environments support a grid layout of virtual desktops? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Greetings, I come as an Ubuntu/Unity user and what has kept me around is the wonderful support for a 3x3 virtual desktop setup and hotkeys to move around the desktops in 2d space. Does anything like this exist in any of the modern DE’s? I would love to try it out with cinnamon, plasma, gnome etc but there are so many and I only seem to find screenshots depicting linear desktops.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@mikegioia kde and xfce support it natively. For gnome you have the material shell extension that brings a similar experience
light wm does not necessarily provide layout out of the box, but it may be scriptable

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you so much! I’m going to try those first two today. Appreciate it!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Confirming: KDE/Plasma has it natively. You can configure number of rows and columns, whether movement should be cyclic or not, and shortcuts to change desktop and to bring windows to other desktops. You can create and remove new virtual desktops on the spot by right-clicking the tray icon. Also shortcuts to get an overview of all desktops at once.

KDE also has a slightly different way of separating workspaces: "Activities" (which can co-exists with virtual desktops); although I don't use it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have shortcuts to move to a desktop dx sx up dw, and i use activities to separate in the third dimension.

I have 2 monitors, and i use a grid 5x4. Activities are used to separate home / work.

I also use bismuth for tiling, so each desktop generally have only one window in it.