karousel

If you are a KDE user Karousel[1] a Kwin script is an easy way to try out a scrolling style. 1. https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel

KDE is truly incredible these days. I'm running Plasma 6 + Karousel[1] for scrolling window management and some custom kwin scripts for incredible maximalist experience. It does everything and does it beautifully https://i.postimg.cc/nznZwg44/Screenshot-20250918-213910.png 1 - https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel

> Operating systems feel like a solved problem Even desktop environment is not solved. I'm typing this from a relatively new metod of displaying windows - a scrolling window manager (e.g. Karousel [1] for KDE). It just piles new windows to the right and it infinitely scrolls horizontally. This seems like a minor feature but changes how you use the desktop entirely and required a lot of new features at operating system level to enable this. I wouldn't go back to a desktop without this. The immutable systems like NixOS [2] have been an absolute game changer as well. Some parts are harder but having an ability to always roll back and the safety of immutability really make your professional environment so much easier to maintain and understand. No more secrets, not more "I set something for one project at system level and now years later I fo

Not sure about Cinnamon, which is a pet project by Linux Mint, but Gnome and Kwin offer some options these days: https://github.com/ellysaurus/KWin-TilingGuide/ https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel there might be more

KDE users might be interested in Karousel. A Kwin script that also does scrollable tiling windows in KDE. https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel

Related projects (from niri’s README): PaperWM (Gnome) https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM karousel (KDE) https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel niri (wayland) https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri hyprscroller (hyprland plugin) https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller hyprslidr (hyprland plugin) https://gitlab.com/magus/hyprslidr PaperWM.spoon (MacOS) https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon

I just switched from hyprland (due to those toxicity articles) back to KDE, and was pleasantly surprised at how much better these scrollable WMs are. I use Karousel[1] which is actually implemented as a KWin script, amazingly. [1] https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel

> How-the-ever, GNOME is ahead of them because of the progress on high dynamic range color, non-fullscreen/partial scanouts, variable refresh rates, and the hidden work in GNOME extensions enabling things like PaperWM. What?? Plasma/KWin 5.27 already had support for VRR. On Gnome/Mutter, it's still in a merge request (or maybe it's finally been merged recently? not sure but it's definitely not in any released version to my knowledge). Not sure about partial scanout, but Plasma 6 also enables basic HDR support (although it doesn't seem to work well on my Nvidia machine, SDR-on-HDR looks very washed out). Gnome is indeed massively ahead in terms of extensions, but I don't know how much of that is due to capabilities vs. market share. See for example Karousel https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel. From my perspective KDE is much farther a