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Nice!!! This is the kind of thing I visit Hacker News for.

I wonder how this compares with the Gnome tiling Add-on from Pop!_OS that is becoming very popular. But this material shell sounds like a much more holistic approach than just adding tiling to Gnome. I'll definitely try this out.

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Pop's tiling is great, and it doesn't force tiling like this does so you can turn it off if you don't want it. I mostly just use their keyboard navigation tools to snap, resize and move instead of the tiling functionality, though. I think I'll stick with Pop's, partly because I'm used to its keyboard navigation, and partly because I don't particularly like tiling.

Sold when I read tiling, yay.. maybe finally at some point I get rid of xmonad, which I loved to play with but do not understand anymore (nothing to complain, has been stable for years even across Ubuntu versions .. but also never touched the config in like 5+ years :D)

I have not looked into these things too much but I like how gnome keyring unlocks when I login to my fedora machine. After a simple initial setup, all my git commits are automatically signed by my gpg key. I don't even have to think about it. I haven't used this for anything serious but I think alternatives will need to achieve feature parity before I can seriously consider them.

Kind of like how I go back to x as opposed to wayland because obs can't capture screen (last time I checked).

This is a Gnome Shell extension, so all the session-related stuff you describe should have no idea or even care that it's running.

I actually don't even use gnome or the gnome session, just bare i3 with lightdm and the gnome keyring unlocks automatically.

You don't need to be using the full GNOME DE in order to use gnome-keyring and have it unlock [1].

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring#Using_the...

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