Finding all the options for keybindings and power settings was a real chore, but done. ![]() The Windows-like “settings are spread out in three different programs and some of them require editing the registry”.I was willing to tolerate my usual list of Gnome problems for the sake of things working. I never quite decided if I liked its horizontal tape of windows or not it certainly is unique in any case. Most seemed to be rather low-quality, but an exception was PaperWM and I eventually decided on it. There are several tiling window extensions available for the Gnome 3 shell. So I tried Gnome under Wayland, reasoning that Wayland might stand a chance of doing things well where X couldn’t. So I was left with XFCE and such, but the isues I identified in the “shouldn’t be this hard” article were bad enough that I just could not keep going that way. xmonad itself can’t run with modern Gnome (whether or not it runs well under KDE 5 seems to be a complicated question, according to wikis, but in any case, there is no log applet for KDE 5). I prefer DEs for the useful integrations they bring: everything from handling mount of USB sticks to display auto-switching and sound switching. ![]() xmobar, which is commonly used with it, barely supports many modern desktop environments. However, xmonad is getting somewhat long in the tooth. Configurable, minimal, and very nice it suited me well. Until a few months ago, I’d been using xmonad for well over a decade. I say “unexpected” because I find tiling window managers are just about a necessity. I went down a path of trying out some different options before finally landing at an unexpected place: KDE. ![]() I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard.
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