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[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago (4 children)

You know, ... I use PaperWM. I have no idea what those overlapping windows are .. which makes it THE BEST LINUX DESKTOP for me

[–] OGMudBoi@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just discovered PaperWM a few weeks ago and I'm hooked. I can't switch away from Gnome unless another tiling scrolling WM beats it. I hope someone makes a version of it for Cosmic.

[–] kazaika@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I heard the wayland compositor niri is inspired by paperwm, fyi. Also I doubt that cosmic will be very extendable when it releases, since most components are rewritten in rust and compiled, thus unless they specifically add some sort of scripting support extensions wont happen as easily as on gnome

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