Not exactly a comment on Gnome, but for multi-monitor setups, especially 4k, you should try a tiling wm, if only for an hour, to see if it's something that might improve your workflow. I recently switched to i3, and it's been a great experience. If anyone likes the idea of tiling wm, but just found the past experiences too intimidating, check it out.
Xmonad was always too bloated, and eventually I would hit the wrong keybinding and mess up the windows. With i3, it's really simple and you never really find yourself using the mouse. Also, it doesn't do that animation that gnome does when you launch something. If you open a new tile on one screen, whatever is going on on the other screen doesn't flash or become shadowed.
Keybinding is simple. Alt+enter gets you a terminal, Alt+d starts an app, Alt+arrows moves you from tile to tile, and Alt-Shift-arrows moves your selected window around. And if an app freezes and won't quit, Alt+Shift+q kills it. And, that's pretty much it. There are other ones, but I've never learned or used them, and doubt I ever will.
If anyone decides to try it and likes it, they should also look at i3lock-blur. It's a screen-locker that blurs everything so that you can kind of see the tiles, but not really see anything. It looks really cool.
Xmonad was always too bloated, and eventually I would hit the wrong keybinding and mess up the windows. With i3, it's really simple and you never really find yourself using the mouse. Also, it doesn't do that animation that gnome does when you launch something. If you open a new tile on one screen, whatever is going on on the other screen doesn't flash or become shadowed.
Keybinding is simple. Alt+enter gets you a terminal, Alt+d starts an app, Alt+arrows moves you from tile to tile, and Alt-Shift-arrows moves your selected window around. And if an app freezes and won't quit, Alt+Shift+q kills it. And, that's pretty much it. There are other ones, but I've never learned or used them, and doubt I ever will.
If anyone decides to try it and likes it, they should also look at i3lock-blur. It's a screen-locker that blurs everything so that you can kind of see the tiles, but not really see anything. It looks really cool.
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