Shared workspaces across monitors

[YannikSc]

As mentioned niri is inspired by PaperWM. Which I absolutely love, btw! One feature of PaperWM however, which I heavily used, is missing in my opinion and that one is, that the workspaces are shared across the monitors.

While it looks a bit messy, code wise, to implement that I don't think it's too far off and it would be a super cool feature, or am I the only one feeling that?

[YaLTeR]

You can move workspaces to a different monitor with a set of binds like:

    Mod+Shift+Alt+Left  { move-workspace-to-monitor-left; }
    Mod+Shift+Alt+Down  { move-workspace-to-monitor-down; }
    Mod+Shift+Alt+Up    { move-workspace-to-monitor-up; }
    Mod+Shift+Alt+Right { move-workspace-to-monitor-right; }

That's as shared as they will get. I personally find the way Paper does shared workspaces a bit weird, especially when your monitors have different resolution.

[salman-farooq-sh]

Is there a wayland solution for treating multiple monitors as a single large one like X11 had?

[YaLTeR]

Wayland has no say on this. The compositor is free to do this, but it needs to be implemented.