KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years

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“VirtualDesktopManager now tracks the current virtual desktop separately for each output. By default it switches the desktop on all outputs together, but there is now an option to enable switching desktops separately for each output.”

Good news, you can do nothing and keep your workflow!

But also, I’ve been clamoring for this feature, because I do have just one screen that I want to swap between multiple desktops and going through the effort of setting up “show on all desktops” for every window I open on every other screen is a pain in the ass.

Isn’t choice great?

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Nice!

FYI, you can use KWin rules to automatically set window properties like “on all desktops” for certain application/window types if you want

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This is basically a terrible hack that would get annoying quickly

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It depends on your workflow, but although KWin rules are not as robust as I would like they are still stable and reliable in my experience. They are getting more and more obsolete with newer Plasma versions - my main use-case is pre-positioning VST plugin windows and they should have fixed saving the window positions on Wayland recently for example - but it’s still useful to me because I still want to remove the taskbar and set “skip application switcher”. But if you need to set geometry or some options from the Alt-F3 menu automatically based on window class/title, it does its job.

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No I meant the specific usage of auto setting show on all workspaces on certain apps would be a terrible hack. It effectively collapses all secondary virtual desktop options on one display to one. It’s a complicated way to effectively get virtual desktops only on the primary monitor or constantly fuck about with switching away from the always present apps on the secondary monitor. It’s just a bad design.

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