macOS Spaces (virtual desktop) allows the user to have multiple desktops PER MONITOR. When a user switches a space, it’s not the entire set of monitors, just the one they are in.
Is there a way to do this in Plasma 6, or… even GNOME?
You can have multiple workspaces per monitor on GNOME, just check your multitasking settings. I do this for my workflow since it’s more efficient for me.
Where does one find these multitasking settings?
(on the Linux side, I »think« only tiling window managers have really experimented with and taking advantage of this sort of thing)
Gnome lets you do this on the primary display, but afaik it’s not possible on the secondary/tertiary displays.
I do this on Hyprland all the time, but it’s a tiling window manager. I’m not sure any desktop environments have support for it.
This is unfortunately stupidly difficult on most Linux desktops, because the EWMH standard doesn’t support it. You mostly find support for it in niche desktops, like various tiling WMs or the Enlightenment DE.
In the upcoming Cosmic desktop by Pop!_OS, workspaces can be monitor specific, just like MacOS
That’s good to know. I’m pretty excited for Cosmic. Pop is already pretty slick.
God I need to try it! It’s probably going to be insanely stable also.
This a very old feature request for KDE. It has not been implemented in almost 20 years so I its probably very hard to do with kwin. Neal Gompa thinks this wayland protocol could make it possible in future, but with the current speed wayland protocols are accepted this could take another 20 years.
No, it can’t be done that on kde or gnome. Here are two such questions on the “other” site, as some people have offered some workarounds there in the comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/bxrrn3/is_there_any_way_to_separate_kde/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/lijbee/multi_monitor_independent_desktop_workspace/