![]() ![]() With a strong foundation, fixing the bugs isn’t that hard!Īnd while the core Plasma team worked on those things, a lot of great work also was done by everyone else to add features and polish the user interface! So there’s lots to see this week: New Features □ And this is great! So we spent a ton of time this week working on fixing all those edge case bugs to make our new multi-monitor system even more robust. We finally nailed the basics, so people are trying it out again, abandoning their xrandr hackaround scripts, and submitting bug reports about the issues with their wild and wacky screen arrangements. I saw this happen starting 2 years ago with the Plasma Wayland session (which has since become very robust), and now it’s happening again with multi-monitor setups. ![]() So in the short term it looks like things are worse, but in fact they’re better because the bug reports are becoming about more and more exotic use cases over time. A personal favorite is Qtile because of the Python programming language that offers a lot of customization options.Something funny happens when you take something that was super broken and you make it work a lot better: people start to use it more! And then they submit bug reports for all their unusual use cases that you failed to anticipate or that hadn’t been getting exercised in a long time. They are fast, minimal, and offer all the essential features you’ll need to keep your app windows organized and maximize your productivity. ![]() In case you’re getting started with window managers, I recommend checking out xmonad or i3. A majority of them offer nearly the same features as our list above. As with any Linux app category, there are many more window managers in the Linux community that you can choose. ![]() Window managers are an essential part of daily workflow productivity for users who have to navigate between several apps or several display screens. By default, it can run on only the Xlib library and work with other libraries such as libXext for shape extension, libjpeg for JPEG backgrounds and icons, libpng PNG backgrounds and icons, Cairo and libRSVG for icons and backgrounds, and many more. ![]()
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