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Comment by jbylund | Hacker News Reader

As a new mac user (~4 weeks with new employer) my biggest N are:

1) inability to ask the window manager "which workspace/desktop am I on" - it also seems like this ability has been progressively removed with newer versions (judging from stackoverflow/askdifferent questions) - after some hacking I've found a workaround for this

2) clicking on a browser notification just brings me to _any_ window of the browser, not the one that sent the notification! - if anyone knows how to fix this please help me out

3) there's a delay on toggling caps lock that you can't disable without installing some small third party utility! it just feels super rude that they're essentially telling me that I didn't mean to press caps lock

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Am I the only one who actually finds more desktop a drawback then a benefit? I clearly haven't mastered multiple desktops -- do you split between projects and just leave it there always? I haven't figured out how to best optimize that which I feel I am leaving real value on the table.

I have a browser profile per workspace and git/aws/maybe some other env vars that are set up on a per workspace basis. To switching from project 1 to project 2 or personal I just click on the appropriate desktops in the status bar.

Which reminds me, another missing thing is the ability to have desktops displayed in the status bar and click on the one you want to jump to.

I tend to only use multiple desktops when I'm on a single screen or working on the laptop directly. In that case it's sorta a task thing, one desktop is chat clients (Slack and/or Discord), one is my editor, another is the browser, and a third is for terminals (for git etc). I use Rectangle to handle moving windows around.

I use i3 (tiling window manager) basically as a maximize-by-default: I have everything either maximized or split vertically once. When I use more windows than that, I typically spread them between workspaces.

I just swipe up with three fingers on the Trackpad to see what desktop I'm on, are you looking for something different?

Yeah, wanted to be able to programmatically ask the window manager such that I can tell new shells to source "~/.bashrc.d/{desktopname}.sh".

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