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> It is easy to get distracted when you do many different things on the same device. Think of rooms as profiles but for the same person. You can have different
by gnull 3y ago
> It is easy to get distracted when you do many different things on the same device. Think of rooms as profiles but for the same person. You can have different rooms based on what you do and arrange them with things for only that purpose. Maybe change the wallpaper to something related to set the mood.
This is something I've been looking for in other DEs, but never found.
- ryanschneider 3y agoI was just thinking the other day I’d also really like that for my terminal history, especially since I’ve often worked at “bring your own device” sized companies.
- EscapeFromNY 3y agoYou might be interested in https://github.com/ellie/atuin https://github.com/ellie/atuin > Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands.
- joshSzep 3y agoAtuin is outstanding. I've barely scratched the surface of its features, but it's already made a significant impact on my command line usage.
- mmgutz 3y agoThis is why I read HN comments. Some hidden gem always surfaces. Never seen this mentioned on any CLI awesome lists.
- IshKebab 3y agoThere's also McFly which is similar. I have yet to try Atuin so I can't say which is better.
- dllthomas 3y agoI've been doing that for a decade+ now and it's marvelous. I key everything off a shell variable called SESSION, and have a few scripts to set that before spinning up a screen/tmux instance if I don't already have one running for the context in question. There's a somewhat dated snapshot of some of my config files (relevant and otherwise) at https://github.com/dlthomas/config-files https://github.com/dlthomas/config-files
- ddtaylor 3y agoKDE has "activities"
- Rygian 3y agoTo date, no one has successfully explained to me what is the benefit of activities over multiple virtual desktops. Would you give it a try?
- Shared404 3y agoI am also interested in this. I've also never been able to fully grok what 'Activities' are, though I've never gone all in on learning them.
- aidenn0 3y agoYou can use both at the same time. Each activity gets its own set of virtual desktops. I use activities to switch between low-distraction and high-distraction modes; combined with a 2x2 grid of virtual desktops, I have certain important things on the north-east virtual desktop on all activities, but other things will be only in one or the other activity.
- c-hendricks 3y agoActivities will get you things like: - different task bar layouts for different activities - different desktop widget layouts for different activities - you can associate files with activities and Dolphin has a `currentactivity://` scheme (tho I do wish this could be extended to apps. As of now if you only want an app to be in a certain activity you've got some window rules to setup) They live in an awkward place, since virtual desktops are a Linux WM thing while activities are just a KDE plasma thing.
- account42 3y agoKDE already had per-virtual-desktop backgrounds before that feature was removed in favor of activities. There is no reason different widgets (both desktop and panel) couldn't have been added to virtual desktops instead.
- BenisMaximus 3y agoHow is this different from virtual desktops?
- Dalewyn 3y agoVirtual desktop is nerdspeak. Room is normspeak.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoAll those faux real world analogies is what keeps normies afraid of computers.
- gnull 3y agoWhat is a virtual desktop?
- rgoulter 3y agoIt sometimes goes by different names, such as 'workspace' or 'screen'; but these days I think every major desktop OS has these. It's just the name for "where the windows go". So you might have your terminal full screen on one virtual desktop, and your browser on another virtual desktop, and use shortcuts to navigate from one to the other.
- deanc 3y agoSeconded. I’d love this in MacOS. A child comment here was talking about different docks and menus and such. This would be great for work vs home.
- anthk 3y agoFvwm and Ctwm did that for ages.