Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity

Re:Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for produc... by sbov on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:11PM (#20159978)

I wish workspaces had shortcuts like alt-tab and superkey-<number> only look at your current workspace.

If I'm on workspace 2, and my superkey-1 corresponds to an application that is only open on workspace 1, i don't want to switch to workspace 1, i want to open a new window of the application in workspace 2.

Similarly, if I'm in workspace 2, I don't want alt tab to show me applications open in workspace 1.

To me, these behaviors make workspaces inadequate for context switching.

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Re:Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for produc... by rodamaral on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @12:34AM (#20161799)

This can be done, depending on the window manager.

In my awesome window manager setup, super+tab always toggle the last 2 windows on the current tag (workspace). It's also possible to map super+1 to make an application be part of the current workspace (or open a new instance there). In this model, a window can be part of more than 1 workspace at the same time.

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