Post #1275073
2026-04-01 11:53 UTC
Q: Linux compositors / tiling WMs:
- I have 2x27" monitors, and have used GNOME for many years
- I am a big user of workspaces: One activity per workspace, *ACROSS BOTH MONITORS*
- I want to seriously give a (wayland?) WM a go, and have tried hyprland and niri
- I cannot seem to capture my mental model / workflow with these WMs. I love the tiling (clean, space efficient + KB driven), but the workspaces are *PER MONITOR*
What am I missing?
#unixporn #linux #desktop #archlinux
Replies (2)
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@qwertviop@chaos.social 2026-04-01 14:31
@oschonrock@mastodon.social Hmm at least on sway it would be easy to work around the issue as you could assign some workspaces (1, 2, 3, etc.) to output one, some to output two (11, 12, 13, etc.), and then modify your shortcuts for switching workspaces to change workspaces on both outputs at once (i.e. `bindsym $mod+1 workspace number 1, workspace number 11` to switch to workspace "1"). And then configure whatever bar you are using to hide this. Similar workarounds might exist on niri and hyprland?
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@fd93@fosstodon.org 2026-04-01 15:32
@oschonrock@mastodon.social I believe AwesomeWM has support for tiling workspaces across both desktops, but you might need to build that feature yourself (Awesome is mostly Lua scripting)