You’ve identified why. If you are able get some tools doing stuff yourself is in general fun

You’re thinking of a different commentor I did not say that

I meant there is no particular reason to expect a gui configuration tool for a gui Window manager that isn’t expected to be dynamic to have a cli.

Generally the use case is always maximize this window or always put it on a particular workspace etc.

If it has any path to being addressable via bash you would check its dbus interface if any.

The same feature on say i3wm also isn’t a CLI nor is it any more dynamic.

Windows rules and wmctrl don’t have identical use cases although there could be overlap

you cannot use it via bash you configure it and it applies actions to windows as they are created you cannot use it at all where plasma isn’t your desktop and as of wayland you cannot use a different window maanager with KDE plasma as wayland doesn’t have the idea of window managers.

I don’t think you are ever again going to have an agnostic way to do this

ya should have written money

it was completely hidden under a pile of made-up conspiracy bullshit

This is basically bullshit. I mean for ANY given thing you can imagine existing there is 5 weirdos on facebook somewhere but the substance and prevailing bitch fest as expressed by 99% of people bitching was perfectly comprehensible normal shit that you are completely retconning.

Linux desktop would be a lot further if the gnome project had died around the time 3.0 rolled out.

Tvs can last 20 years you’ll be lucky to get 2 years of updates

Maybe they should just bill a household regardless and dispense with the extra nonsense then you would just have to pay and couldn’t go on about it

Literally everything that is paid for with tax money works like that. Did you think you got a refund in the mail if you don’t drive on a particular road.

Can you actually use the ports on your dedicated GPU in this case?

Windows rules on KDE?

The overwhelming majority of systems consist of one monitor. For the minority on two monitors the overwhelming majority have 2 low DPI monitors or 2 high DPI monitors.

For those with mixed DPI screens only recently has any system supported scaling xwayland apps appropriately on such setups meaning some apps look like garbage and they still do on gnome. xrandr --scale to scale per screen has worked since 2003 and per screen fractional scaling works on Cinanamon under X right now.

To revise

90% of everyone

Single screen: Wayland == X Multiple similar DPI Wayland == X

5%

Mixed DPI with a mix of Wayland on X apps on every desktop but KDE X > Wayland

5%

Mixed DPI with a mix of wayland and X apps on KDE Wayland > X Mixed DPI with only wayland apps Wayland > X

I wonder why something that is only better for 5% and worse for 5% and requires 100% to deal with bugs missing features and growing pains has negative feelings attached!

It’s not like anyone had legit critique which online weirdos reframe as irrational

hampered by unresponsive complainer

How outside of your fantasies did people bitching actually slow down devs introducing features that people should have known were needed in 2008?

Wayland is 18 years old. From 2015 on people whose entire computer use was a browser and a terminal on their single screen laptop with intel integrated GPU were telling everyone else they needed to change over because X was already practically dead and wayland was ready for prime time.

Meanwhile even on the latest and greatest everything wayland still has at that point many problems, many limitations, and is from the perspective of many users not better in any way whatsoever and in many ways worse. Continue this for 11 years. By the time everything is ready for prime time you’ve already primed people to reject and dislike you.

If shit is actively broken and you want to keep using it you should actually fuckin fix it. That is sustainable…what you are doing is just lazy and cheap.

infrequently used large tv hooked through the receiver

This makes it seem like Linux has a problem with multiple monitors when you just aren’t supposed to connect your 80s AV hardware between TV and computer. You should absolutely expect that to either require an active convertor to your obsolete shit AND OR cutting out the intermediary. If you are going to use weird shit its on you to actually understand how it works.

Out of all the people on earth you might literally be singular person anywhere with this setup. Meanwhile everyone else is just plugging in shit and watching it work.

A tablet screen is too small to use with apps not designed for such a screen. So it will be 100% useless without an actual monitor. Your TV is shit its got shitty text rendering, its massive, and if its 1080p 50" its DPI is shit if its 4K is barely acceptable you are too far from it to be usefully used and you have nowhere to put an actual keyboard.

During operation it will be decoding video 100% of the time so its battery life will be trash on a typical tablet battery and it will get hot.

You could solve all those problems by putting the hardware in a shell with or without fans a bigger battery a keyboard and a screen. Oh look we just re-invented the laptop! Except it only works at all in areas where you have wifi and it costs $30-$50 $50-80 if you have no upfront cost and have to pay for the hardware a month and either you have to manage updates and potential failures on both client and server OR only on the client but the server OS is so constrained that you have no control over it. It is worse and more expensive.

Do please explain what exactly one does with just a slow tablet? Do you use your finger to scroll the too big interface constantly on a laggy interface on your bad wifi whilst your virtual computer slows to a crawl when too many people are home OR do you squint at the poorly sized blurry interface 8 feet away on your 50" 1080p?

People already understand and buy laptops. Why will they buy this?

You would actually need server racks at major ISPs colocated near customers (like netflix does now) to have acceptable latency. To have acceptable performance you would need a cheap small form factor PC, a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse.

None of this is free and if not fucked up on the software side would perform fine as far as normal computing tasks by itself.