macOS Spaces (virtual desktop) allows the user to have multiple desktops PER MONITOR. When a user switches a space, it’s not the entire set of monitors, just the one they are in.
Is there a way to do this in Plasma 6, or… even GNOME?
In the upcoming Cosmic desktop by Pop!_OS, workspaces can be monitor specific, just like MacOS
That’s good to know. I’m pretty excited for Cosmic. Pop is already pretty slick.
This a very old feature request for KDE. It has not been implemented in almost 20 years so I its probably very hard to do with kwin. Neal Gompa thinks this wayland protocol could make it possible in future, but with the current speed wayland protocols are accepted this could take another 20 years.
I do this on Hyprland all the time, but it’s a tiling window manager. I’m not sure any desktop environments have support for it.
Gnome lets you do this on the primary display, but afaik it’s not possible on the secondary/tertiary displays.
You can have multiple workspaces per monitor on GNOME, just check your multitasking settings. I do this for my workflow since it’s more efficient for me.
This is unfortunately stupidly difficult on most Linux desktops, because the EWMH standard doesn’t support it. You mostly find support for it in niche desktops, like various tiling WMs or the Enlightenment DE.
I don’t think you can do it with kwin (KDE wm), but if you’re using xorg, you can replace it with something like i3wm. Do note you’ll lose the desktop, and will need to unbind most KDE shortcuts. It’s definitely worth it though.
