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81 lines
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# Coming from another desktop
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Panama is Hyprland with a shell built to replace a GNOME session, so most of
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what you know still applies. The differences worth knowing on day one are
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below. Nothing here is a preference you have to accept: every one of them is
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adjustable in Settings.
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## Windows arrange themselves
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The biggest change. You do not drag windows into position. Open a second
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window and the screen splits; open a third and it splits again. This is
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called tiling, and after a day of it, dragging windows feels like making
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your own bed in a hotel.
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Two things follow from it:
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- **There is no minimise.** A minimised window is a window you have hidden
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from a layout that was managing it for you. Use `Super + Shift + X` to
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push a window to the scratchpad and `Super + X` to bring it back, which is
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the same idea without the layout losing track of it.
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- **Floating still exists.** `Super + Ctrl + C` makes a window float above
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the layout, for the dialog that was never meant to be tiled.
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## Workspaces replace the taskbar
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Instead of many windows on one screen, use many screens. `Alt + 1` through
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`Alt + 0` jump straight to a workspace; `Alt + Shift + 1` sends the window
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you are looking at to workspace one. `Super + backtick` shows all of them at
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once.
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If you came from macOS, this is Spaces with the friction removed. If you came
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from Windows, it is virtual desktops that are actually worth using because
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switching is one key rather than three.
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## The launcher is the menu
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There is no applications menu to browse. `Super + Space` opens a search box
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that finds applications, files, clipboard history, emoji, and does
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arithmetic. Type three letters of what you want.
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This replaces the Start menu, Spotlight, the GNOME overview's app grid, and
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the run dialog, and it is faster than all of them because it never asks you
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to aim at anything.
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## What stayed the same
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`Super + Tab` still switches windows. The bar is still along the top with a
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clock in the middle and status on the right. There is still a dock. Volume
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and brightness keys still work, and still work on the lock screen. Copy and
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paste are unchanged. Your files are where you left them.
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## Where the settings went
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`Super + I` opens Panama's own Settings. The sidebar is where GNOME's panels
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ended up, and it is worth one read so you never have to hunt:
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| If you are looking for | It is under |
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| Themes, wallpaper, fonts, text size, titlebars | Appearance |
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| The bar, the dock, Control Center, tiling, workspaces | Shell |
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| Resolution, scale, arrangement, night light | Displays |
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| Output and input devices, per-application volume | Sound |
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| Do Not Disturb, per-application rules, focus modes | Notifications & Focus |
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| Shortcuts, mouse and touchpad, dictation | Input |
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| Wi-Fi and VPN, the firewall, sharing, printers | Network & Sharing |
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| Default applications, autostart, gaming, Screen Intelligence | Applications |
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| The accounts on this machine, and online ones | Users & Accounts |
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| Permissions, saved passwords, what the machine remembers, SSH keys | Privacy & Security |
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| Battery, the lid, the power button, idle and lock timings | Power & Lock |
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| Magnifier, color filters, reduced motion, screen reader | Accessibility |
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| Updates, storage, snapshots, date and time, backups | System |
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Home is the page `Super + I` lands on. The search box above the sidebar
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searches the settings themselves rather than the page names, so typing what you
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want to change is usually faster than remembering which of those it lives in.
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GNOME Settings is still installed, and Panama's Settings opens it in exactly
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two places: adding an online account, which has to go through the provider's
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own dialog, and Digital wellbeing, which is the one panel of GNOME's that does
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something Panama does not.
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