A friend of mine is a programmer, he used i3 as a window manager and that has shortcuts for window snapping build in (and much much more), but is rather difficult to set up
Any recommendations for replacement utilities for Power Toys and DisplayFusion? Most notably the monitor profile & snap zones short cuts without having to use a mouse, the high order characters, and the multi-clipboard?
Thanks in advance!
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
Not sure what you mean by high order characters, but KDE has KZones addon, which can be used to define snap zones, and you can also do the snapping using custom keyboard shortcuts. Multi-clipboard support is present out-of-the-box, provided by Klipper.
AlecSadler@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Perfect. I’ll check it out! Thank you.
Saki@monero.town 7 months ago
If what you’re talking about is something OS-level, chances are that you can trivially do the same thing. But if it’s application-level (a tool for Windows): while there’s a way to run a Windows application, apparently it’s not always perfect. If you really need to use a program that only runs on Windows, that’s a valid reason for you to keep using Windows. I hope you can find a libre alternative. You’re free to code your own tool (which behaves exactly the way you like), but admittedly that option is not always realistic.
Nevertheless, at least when doing something generic like browsing web pages or writing email, you don’t need to do that on a privacy-invasive OS. If more and more users start noticing that, Micro$soft might realize that doing annoying things is a bad idea in the long run.
It’s preposterous to pay (buy an expensive license) to be abused!
AlecSadler@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I should’ve been more clear. Right now PowerToys and DisplayFusion let me customize where windows go when I use keyboard shortcuts (upper left, centered with large borders to each side, full top to bottom right, bottom right, etc.). On my 49" ultrawide this is a godsend for window management. Was just curious what program on Linux would offer similar behavior.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I recall using gtile previously, which worked very well with my ultrawide. I forgot to re-install it on my current laptop, so I had to look it up just now. I normally have a 3x2 grid.
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
I’m not certain exactly what you’re referring to, but my experience is that KDE has almost everything built in.