Question is in the title: What is the supposed workflow for vanilla Gnome for keyboard users?

Is there any video/design documents which explain, how the workflow is supposed to be?

Assume, I have a full screen web browser on workspace 1. Now I want to have a terminal… I hit the super-key, type terminal, hit enter … and then I have a terminal which does not start maximized on workspace 1, so I can either maximize the terminal and switch between the applications, arrange them side by side… or I can navigate to workspace 2, start the terminal there (the terminal will not start maximized again on an empty workspace 2) … and switch between the two workspaces (AFAIK there are no hotkeys specified by default to navigate directly to a workspace)…

What I simply do not understand: Does the vanilla Gnome workflow expect you to use mouse and keyboard? Like hit super, use mouse to go to next workspace, type terminal, click to maximize terminal (or use super-up)?

It just seems like a lot of work/clicks/keys to achieve something simple. And to my understanding Gnome expects you to use basically every application with a full screen window anyway, so why does it not open a new application on the next free workspace full screen by default?

  • Peasley@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    You can use a combination of shift, meta, pgup/pgdown and arrow keys to move between workspaces and to move applications between workspaces, and you can alt-tab to switch window focus within a workspace. window management and manipulation can be entirely keyboard-driven

    edit: i just pulled out my laptop to find out how you do it. i only know from muscle memory.

    super(windows) + pgup/pgdown to move between workspaces

    shift + super + pgup/pgdown to move focused window between workspaces

    and of course

    super + left/right to tile

    super + up to maximize

    super + down to un-maximize

    super + h to minimize

    super + number to launch from the dash

  • stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    The supposed gnome workflow is for keyboard users to go fuck themselves.

    Don’t waste time learning the gnome way of doing things, it’s not gonna remain consistent long enough to let you reap any benefits from that knowledge.

  • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    If you have apps in your dock you can also use “Super + 1-9” to start those apps. For example i have the browser on the first position and the terminal on the second so i switch between them with Super+1 and Super+2. It’s also the same on Windows with apps in the task bar by the way. I am fine with it so far but I have thought about switching to a distro with a tiling window manager but the distro I currently use just doesn’t support those and I don’t want to leave right now.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I don’t think there’s an official “way”, but here’s mine (which I love):

    On start-up I open all the apps I usually use, one per designated workspace:

    1. Slack/Teams/Mattermost, whatever my work requires.
    2. Thunderbird
    3. Kitty
    4. PyCharm/RustRover, whatever the job requires
    5. Firefox

    Workspaces 6-9 are left empty, ready for whatever app I need in the moment, but only ever one app per workspace.

    With this setup, I’ve mapped Ctrl+Fx to each workspace, so Ctrl+F4 takes me to PyCharm where I write the code, and Ctrl+F5 followed by another F5 takes me to Firefox and reloads the page. Ctrl+F3 is always the terminal, etc., so you quickly start building these shortcuts to mean Fwhatever is $APP_NAME.

    I almost never use the mouse, unless what I’m doing is necessarily mouse-driven: browsing or drawing charts etc. Everything else is keyboard-driven.

  • Beryl@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 months ago

    If you don’t want vanilla Gnome there’s an autotiling extension