I posted about this on the KDE community a couple of weeks ago, but Dolphin (their file manager) has a nice trick for archives (zips, tar’s, etc) - in the extract menu, there’s an “Extract, Autodetect Subfolder” button which will:
- If the archive has an inner subfolder (and just that), it will extract this as expected
- If the archive doesn’t have an inner subfolder, and all the files are at the root level, it will create a new folder for you and extract the files there
This way, you don’t end up with files splattered all over say, your downloads folder. Easily one of my favorite features, and is something I wish every File Manager had. It feels like someone had the same pain that I do (and I’m sure plenty others) of extracting something, and regretting it - but then they went as far as to fix the problem for everyone and implemented a feature for it (I’d love to have the knowledge to contribute to KDE someday)!
Actually, someone in that thread pointed me to https://www.nongnu.org/atool this, which does exactly that!
One I just discovered recently - in KDE, holding the Super Key & right mouse button lets you resize a window from anywhere so you don’t have to hunt around for the one corner pixel to resize it.
No idea if it works in Gnome or other DE’s, but might be worth a try!
On gnome super+left click allows you to move windows, by default.
You can also enable super+right click to resize with gnome tweaks. In my opinion this should be the default.
Bit of an obvious one but try out new DEs in a VM before installing it on hardware. It is a pretty big time saver especially if you are ricing it.
Other than that looking at extensions for file managers you use. There’s some neat ones and the Arch Wiki is a good place to find them
I’m really enjoying Mission Center - especially compared to the default app on Pop!_OS.
btop is also really good if you want something in the terminal
Ha, that’s basically the windows system monitor. That said, I’m probably going to install it. They did that better than what I’ve seen on most distro.
There’s also one called Resources if you’d like a GTK4/Libadwaita one that isn’t a copy of the Windows task manager
Ctrl + enter to open a new window of an application on gnome
