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Re:dwm by racingmars on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:20PM (#29941293)
Yes! Before I went all-in on desktop Linux, I was a Mac user, and MacOS definitely got virtual desktops exactly right in this regard.
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Re:dwm by justinsaccount on Friday January 14, 2022 @06:26PM (#29941907)
They definitely did not.

OS X has the same issue as a lot of other VMs. You can not simply have a single pool of workspaces and chose to view any N of them, where N is the number of monitors that you have. In OS X you can have workspaces on your left monitor, and workspaces on your right monitor, but you can't easily share the workspaces between the monitors without re-arranging them.

The only WM I have used that gets virtual desktops right for multi monitors is xmonad. Maybe dwm can work the same way, not sure.

In xmonad you can have 10 workspaces and 2 monitors, and pull up any workspace on any monitor. You can have hotkeys to cycle workspaces on either monitor independently and a key to swap the two monitors.

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Re:dwm by niij on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:53PM (#29942832)
You can drag a workspace from one monitor to another in native Mac OS. With yabai you can hotkey it to send to a different one.
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Re:dwm by hiptobecubic on Saturday January 15, 2022 @11:37AM (#29947740)
Not the same at all, really.
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