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Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by bombcar »

reaperducer wrote: post #9
bonyt wrote: post #4

I have the top-left corner on MacOS set to act as a "hot corner." Whenever my mouse goes there, it triggers exposé, showing all my windows to me. I got the habit from using gnome3, which does this by default, and find it quite handy with muscle memory.

I use the top-left corner in macOS for "Disable screensaver." When I'm pondering something on the screen for a while, I can just move the mouse there and not be interrupted. When I use my Windows machine, it's probably the feature I miss most. I've asked my IT people at work, and they tell me there's no way to disable the screen saver on demand in Windows. I don't know if that's an OS thing, or just one of their poli…

There is SOME way to disable the screensaver, because you can play a movie and the screensaver doesn't come on.

So poke around.

https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Di...

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by BirAdam »

I’ve wanted the LG DualUp for a long time.

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b

This is due primarily to hating having tons of horizontal and very little vertical… which just seems stupid for the content we all deal with most of the time. If you’re the average person, you cruise Facebook half the day and use Google Docs for the other half (I’m exaggerating, but you get it) and in either of those your vertical space is at a premium. The browser’s chrome eats space, then you have the site’s controls eating space, and then you have the OS’s crap eating space, and you get the remainder for your actual content. Infuriating.

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

#13

Post by cf100clunk »

The MX Linux example shown (XFCE-based) has at least a couple of further panel (dock) options that may be desirable: automatic hiding, moving to the right side, background transparency, etc. and the MX Tweaks app has a tool for backing up the panel preferences separately from any other backups if you are a panel tinkerer who has an ''oh no'' moment.

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

#15

Post by filoleg »

bombcar wrote: post #11
reaperducer wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use the top-left corner in macOS for "Disable screensaver." When I'm pondering something on the screen for a while, I can just move the mouse there and not be interrupted. When I use my Windows machine, it's probably the feature I miss most. I've asked my IT people at work, and they tell me there's no way to disable the screen saver on demand in Windows. I don't know if that's an OS thing, or just one of their poli…

There is SOME way to disable the screensaver, because you can play a movie and the screensaver doesn't come on. So poke around. https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Di...

"caffeine -imdsu" in the terminal seems to work very well for that purpose.

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

#17

Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

related to TFA but different: does anyone know how to xrandr to arrange 3 screens into this arrangement:

                 S C R E E N T H R E E
                 screen one  screen two
so that moving the mouse vertically from screen 1 or 2 enters screen 3?

That is:

  screen one LEFT-OF screen two
  screen one BELOW screen three
  screen two BELOW screen three
Last time I tried this, it did not work (I assume because xrandr makes assumptions about physical monitor size)

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by devnullbrain »

threads2 wrote: post #16

I set the Mac OS dock to auto-hide and it frees up, like, an inch of space. Blows me away when I see people with the default-sized dock always open. Any real reason for this?

I do the same as you on my work Mac Pro, with if pinned to the left of the screen. On the other hand, for my personal Air the screen size is small enough that having it hidden means I often accidentally hover over it. The constant unintentional popping-in becomes more frustrating than having the reduced screen space.

On the Air I only use max-size windows & on the Pro I use tiles and panes.

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by banana_giraffe »

reaperducer wrote: post #9
bonyt wrote: post #4

I have the top-left corner on MacOS set to act as a "hot corner." Whenever my mouse goes there, it triggers exposé, showing all my windows to me. I got the habit from using gnome3, which does this by default, and find it quite handy with muscle memory.

I use the top-left corner in macOS for "Disable screensaver." When I'm pondering something on the screen for a while, I can just move the mouse there and not be interrupted. When I use my Windows machine, it's probably the feature I miss most. I've asked my IT people at work, and they tell me there's no way to disable the screen saver on demand in Windows. I don't know if that's an OS thing, or just one of their poli…

Normally Windows apps can call SetThreadExecutionState to request the screensaver not come on. Video players do this, as do some other apps. See here[1] for a Powershell script that does just this, for example.

I suppose they could have deployed some group policy that disables this behavior. That'd be annoying if it's the case.

[1] https://blog.backslasher.net/windows-awake-ps.html

Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm

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Post by indrora »

reaperducer wrote: post #9
bonyt wrote: post #4

I have the top-left corner on MacOS set to act as a "hot corner." Whenever my mouse goes there, it triggers exposé, showing all my windows to me. I got the habit from using gnome3, which does this by default, and find it quite handy with muscle memory.

I use the top-left corner in macOS for "Disable screensaver." When I'm pondering something on the screen for a while, I can just move the mouse there and not be interrupted. When I use my Windows machine, it's probably the feature I miss most. I've asked my IT people at work, and they tell me there's no way to disable the screen saver on demand in Windows. I don't know if that's an OS thing, or just one of their poli…

on MacOS, caffeine is a good tool but if you need it in dock (pill?) form, the amazing Amphetamine app is there for you. It'll even (if you use safari) keep you up just long enough to finish that big download. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12

on Windows, the process involves taking a Power Request. A Display power request keeps the display awake, and is the overriding above most all else. It's trivial to do with a little PowerShell ( https://blog.backslasher.net/windows-awake-ps.html ) though the fine folks at Microsoft have included it in their standard set of PowerToys as Awake: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/awake

Last I remember, this keeps you from having a screensaver come up.

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