docs/dev/COMPARE.md says what komorebi for KDE shares with komorebi for Windows and komorebi for Mac, what differs, what KDE does by itself and what is not supported, for a reader who knows komorebi on one of them. Its tables are generated by scripts/compare-gen.py from this checkout and from checkouts of the other two, because a count or a name typed by hand is wrong after the next change to a command, a key or an event. The script also checks the notes that say why a command has no counterpart, and the sentences of the document that depend on a table, and stops when one of them is no longer true. CI has neither checkout and cannot run it; CONTRIBUTING says when to run it. The tables have no column for the commit that added a row: the plan that numbered the commits is not in the repository, and a number the script cannot derive for the next commit would stop it. The other documents had places that said something the repository does not carry or does not do: - DESIGN cited docs/kde.md, which no commit carries, said spike 8 "asked whether" one komorebi.json could be shared, and described the default of the key binding mode as a plan. Each entry now states the rule and the evidence. The first entry no longer says that the Windows implementation is the reference: both it and the macOS one were read, and the native thing is preferred where the other two need a workaround. - "The spikes" was used in PLATFORM, DESIGN and COMPARE and defined nowhere. PLATFORM's vocabulary defines it, and PLATFORM has a list of what was not measured, which COMPARE links to. - ARCHITECTURE said a maximized window is hidden with its workspace and shown with it, and that the code has a TODO for cycling the focus. A workspace switch hides nothing, since KWin shows and hides the desktop's windows, and the cycle leaves a maximized window as it is; the TODO and the commented-out code under it in window_manager.rs are replaced by a comment that says so. The Key bindings section no longer repeats the headings of the sections before it. - README listed the subcommands that work without the daemon, and the list was short. It gives the rule and one example of each kind. - The page on changing monitors opened with "nothing to configure" and then named display_index_preferences. - COMPARE said KWin waits 300 ms for the pointer to settle before it moves the focus. That is KWin's default (DelayFocusInterval, in KWin 6.8.1), and komorebi sets it to 0 while focus follows mouse is on; the page now says so. - ARCHITECTURE's opening list of what the page describes stopped at the borders and had no word of animation, themes, wallpapers, transparency, focus follows mouse or key bindings. Two link definitions that it had twice are there once. - PLATFORM's list of what was not measured has the progress of the stock animation effect against the clock: one capture showed none four seconds into a 30 s animation, where the curve gives about 60 %. - README, docs/index.md and ARCHITECTURE link COMPARE.md. - COMPARE's list of the methods of Backend has drag_end, which the end of a resize is read through, and compare-gen.py has the row and the counts.
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Workspaces
Each monitor has workspaces, and shows one of them at a time. A workspace has its own windows and its own layout. komorebi's workspaces are KWin's virtual desktops: workspace 0 is the first desktop, workspace 1 the second, and so on, which is why the pager, the overview and KWin's shortcuts show and switch them too.
komorebi turns on KWin's per-output virtual desktops when it starts, so that each monitor shows a desktop of its own: switching the workspace of one monitor leaves the others as they are. It puts the setting back as it was when it stops.
Showing another workspace
komorebic focus-workspace shows a workspace of the focused
monitor, by its number, counted from 0. KWin shows the windows of that workspace and hides the
others, and the window of that workspace that had the focus has it again.
komorebic focus-workspace 1
komorebic focus-workspace 0
A workspace that does not exist yet is created, with the ones before it, and KWin gets a desktop for each, named "Workspace 2" and so on. A desktop that is there already keeps its name. The desktops komorebi creates stay when it stops.
Moving a window to another workspace
komorebic move-to-workspace takes the focused window to another
workspace, puts it after the windows there, and shows that workspace.
komorebic send-to-workspace does the same and stays on the
workspace in front, which is tiled again without the window.
komorebic move-to-workspace 1
komorebic send-to-workspace 2
Going round the workspaces
komorebic cycle-workspace shows the next or the previous workspace
of the focused monitor, and wraps around at both ends;
komorebic cycle-empty-workspace shows the next or the previous
one that has no window, if there is one.
komorebic cycle-move-to-workspace and
komorebic cycle-send-to-workspace take the focused window to
the next or the previous workspace, with and without showing it.
komorebic cycle-workspace next
komorebic cycle-empty-workspace previous
komorebic cycle-move-to-workspace next
The last workspace
Each monitor remembers which workspace was in front before the one in front now.
komorebic focus-last-workspace shows it again, so two in a row
go back and forth between the two.
komorebic move-to-last-workspace and
komorebic send-to-last-workspace take the focused window
there, with and without showing it.
Names
komorebic workspace-name names a workspace, given by the index of its
monitor and its own index, and
komorebic ensure-named-workspaces gives a monitor a workspace
for each name it is given, in order. The name is komorebi's, for the commands that find a
workspace by its name: KWin's desktop keeps the name it has.
komorebic focus-named-workspace shows the workspace with that
name, on the monitor that has it, and focuses that monitor. A name no workspace has changes
nothing. komorebic query focused-workspace-name prints the name of the workspace in front, or its
index when it has none.
komorebic ensure-named-workspaces 0 web code mail
komorebic focus-named-workspace mail
Adding and removing workspaces
komorebic new-workspace adds a workspace after the last one of the
focused monitor and shows it, and komorebic ensure-workspaces
gives a monitor at least as many workspaces as it is told.
komorebic close-workspace removes the workspace in front and shows
the one before it, when the workspace has no window and no name and is not the monitor's last.
komorebic focus-workspaces shows the workspace with the same index
on every monitor.
The layout of another workspace
komorebic workspace-layout and
komorebic workspace-tiling set the layout of a workspace, and turn
its tiling off or on, by the index of its monitor and its own index;
komorebic named-workspace-layout and
komorebic named-workspace-tiling find it by its name. The
focused workspace is tiled again at once, and another workspace the next time it is tiled, when it
is shown at the latest.
komorebic workspace-layout 0 1 columns
komorebic named-workspace-tiling mail disable
Switching with KWin
Anything that switches KWin's desktop switches komorebi's workspace: the pager, KWin's own shortcuts, the overview, or an application that raises a window of another desktop (KWin then shows that desktop and focuses the window). komorebi follows, tiles the workspace that came into view, and asks KWin for nothing in reply. A window moved to another desktop with the window menu's "Move to Desktop" moves to that workspace.
The windows that were open before
When komorebi starts, each window that is open goes to the workspace whose desktop it is on, and each monitor starts on the workspace KWin shows there. A window that is on every desktop goes to the workspace in front.