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    I heard you like desktops, so I put a desktop in your desktop in your desktop (fedia.io)
    submitted 2 months ago by blued_gear@fedia.io to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] Cris16228 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Is there any reason or benefit on doing that? Genuine question

    [–] blued_gear@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago

    A friend of mine and I had a discussion why Browser add workspaces or side-panel like views inside them as I think the usage of multiple windows archives the same effect: separating a bunch of tabs.
    They had the argument that it benefits as many windows get hard to handle when you try to find the right one in the taskbar after minimizing one.

    So I had the idea "That's a good point. But why limit it to Browsers and Co and wait for them to implement such stuff (other example is tmux with terminals)". So I started researching and found a Mastodon post (sorry, but I forgot where it was) that showed a Plasma shell inside a Wayland window. With some tinkering I came up with this script.

    Now to answer your question: it can help to organize a lot of windows, but each Plasma instance takes about 200 MB RAM and also on my computer the main Plasma instance kept crashing after some minutes.

    [–] 3H3x36tBElshOa@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Maybe share a GPU to different users of the same computer who are just using different monitors. This isn't virtualization, it seems like it's just workspaces created within workspaces, so it's maybe capable of managing a workspace per monitor.

    [–] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

    This is called multi-seating and requires input handling of more than one keyboard and mouse (as well as other things). It is not really useful for that in the state shown above.

    [–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

    Get those vmwate vibes back