Is there a Linux application that does what fancyzones does?
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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If you are under KDE, there is a plugin for this, but I don't recall the name. I'll tell you later when on my computer. I use it everyday.
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All fun and games but I'm still missing the "paste without format" keybind.
Powertoys is a great addition and while there probably are addons for all of these in linux I kinda wish they would come in one package together too.
Maybe it's just me but I feel like I'm not helping my system by tagging on add on after add on just to get back some basic functionality from Window like a clipboard and status indicators for some apps in my taskbar
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Power toys is so bad now. Almost all the features are completely useless and it hogs a ton of system resources.
Oh, yes all the tools that should already exist in their crappy, uninnovated OS.
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Meh... switch to linux, already
It’s for average users to make Windows easier to use. Though that’s the same as making it more Linux like
I remember using it way more in 98/XP. Group Policy manager is what I have to use for most of the shit I wanna do with 10. Which is only available with a Pro license.
not using https://massgrave.dev/ for windows licences
statements made by the utterly deranged
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Have been using PowerToys for years, can't imagine using Windows without it.
winsock.dll
Where's my trumpet?
@BagOfHeavyStones @homesweethomeMrL stolen by Trump?
Maybe so.
For those who don't understand it, Windows 3.1 etc needed a third party program called Trumpet Winsock in order to connect to the internet.
I’ve never heard of PowerToys Run, but it looks like Spotlight on MacOS but for Windows. Is this correct?
Yes! And they also have an Everything (way better search program than Windows has EVER been) plugin that I’ve tweaked to include Everything’s results at the top since the index it does is exponentially better than Windows’ own. Highly recommend for those that want that two button search that has always found what I was looking for on my own computer.
Shoutout to KDE for their search function, KRunner?, as it is amazing and ready to go from the get go.
Windows Power Toys is a suite of programs and tweaks for Windows, one of which is “Run” that behaves similar to spotlight search on macOS. If you have to operate in Windows, I’d say the suite is a must-have for Run, Fancy Zones, File Renamer, Screen Ruler, and Color Picker alone. It’s good software that should be built into the OS but for some reason is not— built and maintained by a dedicated open source community these days as opposed to just a couple individuals from inside Microsoft back in the day when Power Toys was a proprietary tool first released on Windows 95.
I use the plain text paste from powertools daily. Also does text OCR to clipboard.
Also has a “find cursor” macro
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Pretty much.
What's the second one? PowerToys and?
It's WSL, I think the logo is relatively new though or maybe not official idk
Interesting, didn't know WSL had a logo. Thank you!
I miss the window tiling one. Its ability to span multiple "areas" with a window by holding a modifier key is something I sorely wish KDE's tiling had.
Edit: FancyZones! Finally remembered the name.
Fancy zones and alt snap rule! (Although I believe alt snap - click-dragging windows with a keyboard activator - is core window manager stuff?)
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Thought KDE did have one? Unless I installed an extension and forgot about it.
Super + T to configure
And works with Super + left click to move windows (no more hunting that pesky titlebar up top)
Edit: I'm on KDE 5 so things may be different, but I found it under Workspace Behaviour>Desktop Effects>Window Management
Meta as in Super?
You're right! Got my names mixed up, still dealing with Windows brainrot
Sorry, wasn’t ment to be a correction. Was making sure I was on the same page.
Or playing in the same key as the rest of the band…..
No apology necessary C: you helped improve the clarity of my initial comment, so thank-you!
Yeah this is inbuilt (not an extension) and very similar to Windows fancy zones.
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I know it’s not KDE Plasma, but Gnome on Ubuntu has Tiling Shell. It also lets you span multiple tiles too.
Yeah, but then I'd be using Gnome.
Preach.
wait til you hear about WSL
until you realise it's just a Microsoft-flavored VM
only the second version. wsl1 is pure black magic. the communication layer is 9P, which means that windows is currently the only mainstream OS capable of talking to a Plan9 network out of the box.
Oh cool, TIL. And I think this knowledge is niche enough such that n < 10,000 lol
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i think that’s oversimplifying, but kinda…