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System76’s COSMIC Desktop Hits Initial Setup Completion (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (11 children)

eh I'm going to take a wait and see approach.

The early alpha versions of COSMIC I really liked but over time with each new Alpha release it just felt...off? like kinda leaning into GNOME "please don't actually customize me" territory? and there were a couple keybinds that just weren't there. also it felt like it was getting slower with each release.

That being said I think if you just want a very simple DE with the option of good tiling then COSMIC is the way to go. It's been awhile since I tried one of the previous alphas so if his release really is the shit then I might consider switching my WM to it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    The tiling feature is killer, I really wish KDE had something imilar that can be easily toggled on and off.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Krohnkite?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Tried it - it works, but isn't toggleable like the PopOS tiling which has a taskbar button and a hotkey.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Keybind the floating layout in settings and it will act as a toggle! (Taskbar button I dont have a solution for tho) However krohnkite still isnt anywhere near the polish of an actual tiling wm unfortunately

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I never found any way to set up a keybind - I had to deactivate and logout.

    Edit: I checked again and there's no hotkey anywhere. If you have a way to do this, I'm all ears.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Should be under keyboard -> shortcuts -> window management(or something similar) -> krohnkite float

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's to float one particular app window, it doesn't disable Krohnkite altogether. The magic of the PopOS tiling is that the toggle fully enables/disables it, effectively switching between a stacked and a tiling WM with the click of a button.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's pretty much the best and only option for KDE but even then it's very janky. COSMIC is going to be the best option for this but again, you're then sacrificing the customization you'd get with Plasma.

    And that sums up Linux DEs/WMs. If there's something you want you'll have to sacrifice something else. because there are NO DEs/WMs out there that will have everything you want in one package unless you build it yourself.

    ...unless you're MaoMaoWM and you're the dev who just said "fuck it, I'm including everything"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    blame the devs for that. There was an git issue a year or so ago about just that. a user asked for tiling, many other users chimed in and said "yes, please" the KDE devs said "no, we personally don't like or use tiling so you're not going to have it either." Which essentially sums up KDE development. IF they don't use or like something than neither will you.

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