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I like GNOME 3 a lot better than Unity, but until it can give me multiple independent virtual desktops on all my monitors, I'll be sticking with one of the few
by greatquux 15y ago
I like GNOME 3 a lot better than Unity, but until it can give me multiple independent virtual desktops on all my monitors, I'll be sticking with one of the few window managers that can: Enlightenment (0.17 from the Bodhi Linux repositories running on 11.10).
- darklajid 15y agoHaven't used e for a long time. Is that feature the single criteria for you? If not, can you list some more ~nice~ things here to lure potential candidates (me) into giving it a try again?
- greatquux 15y agoThat's one criteria, but I've found I'm just more productive using E because it mostly gets out of your way. It also looks good and it's a lot faster, even on modern hardware, than GNOME 3 or KDE or Unity. It finally comes with a basic compositing manager module and a 'scale windows' plugin for Expose like effects, although I don't really need to use it much since its pager window has minimized icons that give me visual cues as to where I put certain apps. It's not a whole DE, and I do run gnome-settings-daemon in the background and use Nautilus or PCManFM to browse files and such, but I keep going back to it and I've been using it since 2005.
- sciurus 15y agoIn dconf, try changing “/schemas/desktop/gnome/shell/windows/workspaces_only_on_primary” to false.
- greatquux 15y agoDid that already - it creates one big virtual desktop like in GNOME 2.x, but does NOT give me 2 workspace switchers (one for each monitor) so that I can change the workspace on one independently. That's what I'm after.