WIP: one terminal per workspace

freimair commented 9 months ago

Just coded up a "one terminal per workspace" feature.

added a few fixes as well.

I am going to live with my results for a few days and see if any issues arise.

Will create new PRs for logical parts of this PR:

[x] addressing focus behavior: https://github.com/diegodario88/quake-terminal/pull/10
[x] increase felt performance: https://github.com/diegodario88/quake-terminal/pull/17
[x] general improvements: https://github.com/diegodario88/quake-terminal/pull/16
[ ] terminal per workspace: TBD

freimair commented 8 months ago

@diegodario88 I am quite happy with the feature using Wayland - everything works as expected.

However, X11 does some very inconvenient stuff:

attaching listeners to the wrong windows
hide/show actions are performed on the wrong windows
even QuakeMode class instances seem to get mixed up w/o any obvious pattern

do you have any insights on what is going on?

diegodario88 commented 8 months ago

Hi @freimar,

I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying it on Wayland! However, I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing these issues with X11. It's not always easy to pinpoint the exact cause of such problems, and without more specific information, it's challenging for me to provide any insights. Additionally, it's worth noting that X11 is gradually being deprecated in favor of Wayland, which means that efforts to address these issues on X11 might be limited.

diegodario88 commented 7 months ago

Hello @freimair, just wanted to inform you that I'm closing this as the mentioned feature is beyond the scope of this project. Achieving better results might be possible using a terminal multiplexer.

freimair commented 7 months ago

@diegodario88 well no, actually, I do not think that a terminal multiplexer is a valid alternative.

consider this (my) use case:

having to put out fires on different projects all day long
one project, one workspace
switch to the workspace with the target project
hit [Hotkey] and get the terminal window as a dropdown
at the directory one has configured hours back including history and
with terminator, possibly even a set of terminals specific for this project (ssh, diffs, general purpose shell, git, ...)

without the need to sift through another terminal multiplexer again.

gnome workspaces are designed that way. why lock the terminal dropdown to kind-of "always on visible workspace" setting?

besides, I started with Guake, went over to quake-terminal and now to your rewrite. All of them eventually had the request to make terminals per workspace a feature.

that being said, sorry that there have been no news here, I am just testing if I can finally use Wayland here. the much-needed screen-sharing feature hardly works w/o x11 as a backend...

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