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I have it bound to `$mod+c` and launched as a floating window in i3. It integrates very well into my workflow as I can just quickly launch, perform a one-off calc, and close it whether I'm in a terminal or elsewhere. Since it saves history, I can always relaunch it and continue where I left off as well.

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I have `$mod+c` bound to rofi-calc [1] which I find even more convenient.

1. https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc

Glad you like it. :)

Cool. Just having seen this I guess I'd better look at using libqalculate in earnest!

I tried this in cinnamon. But I use multiple desktops and if qalculate is already on another desktop, the experience is pretty bad since it doesn't move to this one (and I do want its 'allow only single process at once' enabled so settings save properly)

Does there exist a solution for that?

I hve a global shortcut to open a Julia REPL session and I use that to perform any sort of quick calculations instead of a GUI calculator. The best thing about this approach is that I can always create new functions for stuff I use often.

I am not sure if it is of interest to you, but from the cli, qalc's REPL is much faster to start when compared to julia

> The best thing about this approach is that I can always create new functions for stuff I use often.

Do you put those in your startup.jl? Do you have a Startup package like some recommend for Julia 1.9+?

Qalc seems like a better calculator to me and is more stable somehow despite being written in I think C++. Not having to download a huge programming language taking up GB of space, research an ecosystem and import ten packages sounds ideal. I prefer python or R and sometimes even BC to Julia for terminal calculating anyways...

I'd let the post about qalculate be about qalculate here.

i like the rpn mode

Huh, yeah, it does do RPN. This is actually looking like a serious replacement for my current daily driver, Emacs calc.

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