Wow, buying a big monitor sounds like an idea that could work. I’d never even thought about doing that, since most of the times monitors like those are used, as far as I have seen, to get a better multitasking experience and I am the type of person who simply leaves one fullscreen window open at the time. But if it leaves your peripheral vision, I guess it is definitely possible.

I don’t think it’d work for me, but honestly, sounds like a great idea to have in mind! I’m having a lot of fun learning about different people’s workflows like this.

I had never heard that term. I think I am bad at multitasking, but not to that point! :0 Maybe I’ll take an online monotropism test tomorrow and see what I get, just for fun

Wow, now that’s a very intricate setup. The fact that the windows don’t go to their corresponding activity seems weird, maybe it’s a bug? Seems like it’d be hard to find the cause, though.

Also, when you reboot, do the windows with different firefox instances stay with the same tabs open? Are the profiles kept? Since I prefer to start on a clean slate, I start a new session and simply autostart my usual apps which are bound to their respective desktops. But if even those two are kept, it does seem pretty damn great. Pretty similar to suspending, in a way. Too bad about the activities part though.

That’s very interesting, especially the mouse part. I hadn’t thought about remapping its buttons to anything related to KDE, and unfortunately I don’t think that is possible in mine.

I am also surprised you can manage 20 desktops in two monitors. How much ram do you have, both in your brain and in your computer?! And the part where the grid is synced between the screens also feels a little weird to me, but even though I only use a single monitor, I can definitely see the appeal. Obviously, the biggest issue with doing that is that you have to have corresponding workspaces on both monitors at all times, but with 20 workspaces on each side, you can certainly get a lot of combinations. You could get two instances of firefox open in a different sets of workspaces, one for work and another for leisure, for instance. Firefox profiles are great for that!

Even then, I need to say it, 20 desktops on each side is a lot. For such a large number, you could consider activities, but since you seem to change desktop through the desktop grid, with no need for shortcuts, I can see how it becomes more manageable. Your setup seems very creative and unusual, at least for me.

Thanks for the comment!

Yeah, I also noticed that and felt the same!

Yes, my way is extremely confusing, even more than I thought before writing this. That picture with the firefox workspace in the middle really made it hit home. I don’t recommend anyone to follow it.

Using the numpad as a grid workspace is an amazing idea I’d never thought of!

Not really my kind of thing since I don’t really like to move my wrists much as I use my pc, but I’ve gotta admit, when I first saw it while I was researching for another commenter I just looked at my numpad and thought “genius”. I had a grid in my keyboard and hadn’t even noticed it. Maybe if I had known that a few years ago I would have used it, but nowadays, I prefer the workflow I have. Thanks for the amazing comment, nevertheless!

Strangely enough, although I could’ve sworn there was a simple command for that, I could only find scripts. You can use them if you want, should be easy to find, but a surprising workaround someone mentioned was using the numpad as the grid.

I don’t really remember how to do it, but think I remember there was a way to map ctrl+meta+down to workspace + 3, and ctrl+meta+up to workspace -3, which gave the same effect. I’ll see if I can find it

I understand where you’re coming from, but I think I prefer the ease of use of something like KDE. I tried sway for a while, only to figure out that I am not really a tiling window manager type of person :)

Thanks for the tip though!