hi everyone, using xfce(main desktop) doesn’t work, tried gnome and cinnamon and same thing. anyway know how to do this pls? thanks for reading.

edit: ty all 4 input, looks like the solution is with window managers.

  • CaptainJack42@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    10 months ago

    Afaik the X11 standard says that this shouldn’t be done and that workspaces should span all monitors (or something along the lines of that), thus most DEs don’t do this (I’ve read this in the gnome issue tracker), don’t ask me why cause I also hate this behaviour. Most window managers will do that however and luckily it’s super easy to replace xfwm with another window manager. I use i3 inside xfce on my work laptop, this guide describes how to set it up with ease

  • Matej@matejc.comEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    In i3wm/swaywm, hyprland, … You can assign workspaces to outputs (monitors)

  • emhl@feddit.de
    2·
    10 months ago

    AwesomeWM should allow switching workspaces independently if you want to try a dynamic tiler

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

    Gnome 3 has an option to keep one display fixed when changing workspaces… Also most window managers allow you to keep certain windows on all workspaces, maybe that will help?

  • Froyn@kbin.social
    25·
    10 months ago

    KISS: Plug workstation 1 into monitor 1 and workstation 2 into monitor 2. Then use something like Synergy to share the keyboard and mouse between the computers.