External monitors as "desktops"

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 6:31 AM Thomas Lübking
<thomas.luebking at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 10:28:42AM +0200 schrieb Vlad Zahorodnii:
> >On 2/18/22 22:28, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> >>Is there a way in kwin/plasma to make an external monitor its own "desktop?"
> >>That is, when you hit "ctrl-tab" to change desktops, that monitor does not
> >>change its display?  Similar to the way Mac (can) handles external displays.
> >
> >At the moment, kwin does not support per monitor virtual desktops, but
> >there was an attempt to fix that.
>
> I major obstacle will be that this isn't covered by the NETWM spec and
> you'll have issues reporting the current virtual desktop or treating
> requests to move or move windows there.
> So the implementation would probably have to exist aside that concept
> and then is just some way to manage the mapping state of windows on the
> current (in doubt only) virtual desktop.

There's a (very old) bug asking for this:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107302


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