Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME

Re:Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME by dkersten on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @08:37AM (#24492023)

I recently switched to Sway because gnomes workspaces annoyed me too much. Let me choose a workspace independently on each monitor please! On i3 I was getting really bad screen tearing, even with conpton/picom otherwise I’d have just used that, but Sway/Wayland has no such problems.

Sadly a few things don’t work so well in Wayland. For example, Windows games under Proton work fine on X but not on Wayland/Xwayland (I guess since they’re not Wayland aware they can’t bypass the compositor?)

So, I too will try this project out as it looks like it may be a nice middleground where I can be productive in gnome on X.

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Re:Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME by shock on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @10:23AM (#24492963)

Maybe you would find PaperWM useful. You can move workspaces among different monitors seamlessly.

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Re:Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME by dkersten on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:43PM (#24495133)

Thanks! I'll give it a try. It looks like it might help.

In general, I'm happy with Sway, but it would be nice to have an X option that works for my workflow too (gnome doesn't seem to have the screen tearing issues i3 did).

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Re:Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME by ews on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @07:47PM (#24499457)

Same, after years of X/i3 tearing and unsuccessfully tweaking compton, I switched to sway/wayland on arch and couldn't be happier.

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Re:Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME by mijoharas on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:27AM (#24515404)

The only thing I find annoying is the lack of screen sharing on zoom. Zoom claims they support wayland on arch, but unless I made a mistake or something, that's just not true.

Some wine things don't work properly too, which is somewhat annoying, but I only have one wine application I run very rarely, so it's not too onerous to boot back into i3 for that.

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Re:Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME by dekimir on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:26PM (#24494932)

Another annoying breakage in Sway is Android Studio. Submenus appear in random places on the screen even with _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1.

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Re:Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME by dkersten on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:35PM (#24495033)

Oh, yeah, I did notice some glitches with Java applications like DBeaver.

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