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The windowing UI/UX I wish for is to arrange a bunch of app's windows on my screen, then run some tool that notices what is running, where they all are, and wha
by dmckeon 3y ago
The windowing UI/UX I wish for is to arrange a bunch of app's windows on my screen, then run some tool that notices what is running, where they all are,
and what has input focus, and can save that state to be reinstantiated later.
Think of how live stage theatre does set changes: there are tape marks on the stage floor showing where every object should go, and the crew just puts objects
where the crew knows the objects belong, according to the marks. Yes, one could edit multiple fiddly ~/.{X,x}* files with X/Y sizes and positioning in arcane syntaxes. Is there no tool in the Gnome-everse that can handle this?
- fleg 3y agoI'm pretty sure that this (and a little bit more) is already present in KDE and it's called Activities. It's not very popular, possibly because it's not "marketed" enough IMO.
- zgluck 3y agoNot Gnome, but you're kind of describing the mac Stage Manager feature. It's quite nice with most apps.
- dave7 3y agoBack in the day I had an Autohotkey script to do exactly this on Windows. Was very simple with the WinGet, list, WinGetPos and WinSetPos in loops with window title, x,y,w,h, persisted to a .ini file I wonder how you might do this on Gnome or KDE these days.
- phil294 3y agoJust FYI the exact same thing is now also possible with AHK_X11 on Linux https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11 https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11