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How important is a DE to you? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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After 2y on Linux I can say with full confidence that switching from GNOME to KDE (for me) is a bigger barrier than switching from Windows to Linux ever was.

I’ve tried a lot to like KDE but I just can’t. I usually see people discussing distros but I feel like picking the right DE makes much bigger impact. I’m yet to try Hyprland though.

Considering the fact that I’m itching to get Steam Frame and VR on GNOME will likely be broken indefinitely, idk what to do.

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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

For example, the ability to disable global shortcuts on specific windows. So if I've got a remote desktop open to my work I can send Super-. (Win-.) and that'll open the Windows emoji picker in the remote desktop instead of the KDE one (locally). And it will remember this setting for that application!

I did not know this! I'll look into this and no longer will it piss me off when I tap Super in a VM to open the menu, and have to dismiss my local menu first.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That's just the tip of the iceberg of cool and useful stuff you can do with KDE Plasma (and Kwin).

    Another tip: Did you know that KRunner (Alt-Space) can do unit conversions? Type Alt-Space and 10cm or something like that and it'll give you that value in inches.

    Another: You can bind shortcuts to mouse buttons like Ctrl-Alt-Right (click) And Ctrl-Alt-Left to say, switch desktops right/left.

    You can type Ctrl-i in Dolphin to filter files. So if you're looking at your enormous downloads directory and you want to see all the .png files you can type Ctrl-i, png and it'll only show you files with png in their name.

    KDE's "get hot new stuff" framework works with Dolphin "actions" (context menu file handlers) so you can go into the settings—>Context Menu and click on "Download New Services" to browse tons of free scripts/tools that let you do things like file conversions, write disk images to USB drives, get checksums, etc.

    I actually made a personal script that converts videos to looping .webp files (or just sets WebP files to loop forever). So I can right click on a .WebP, .webm, .mp4, etc and it'll run ffmpeg on it in the background.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Another: You can bind shortcuts to mouse buttons like Ctrl-Alt-Right (click) And Ctrl-Alt-Left to say, switch desktops right/left.

    OK, how the hell do you do this? Because I have Ctrl+left click and Ctrl+right click set on my Mac to switch left/right between spaces/desktops, and cannot for the life of me work our how to replicate that in Linux.

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