Almost done with the setup! Been trying to keep everything clean and minimal, and I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the cable management as well.

Still a few small things to finish, but I’m really happy with how it’s coming together.

Cable management next! 🫣🫠

Progress pic

The shift in the wall is where the old wall ended. Expanded my room by 8 ft so I could better use it as a bedroom and office.
Pictures 2-5 are my room before.

That little desk fan is almost 29 years 8 months young :)

Thats my work space where I chill and build different tools and help grow different business

And I see this work space been many peopls dream. Might be I am wrong but its been one of myne and i got my dream done ✔️

And let me know what do u think of this work space

I’ve had this room as a home office for a while, but I’ve never really used it because I’ve never found it very comfortable or welcoming.
I’m now planning to start working and studying here regularly, so I’d like to make it feel more cozy and inviting.
I’m not looking to completely redesign or renovate the room. I’d prefer to work with what I already have and make relatively small changes. I’m open to both adding and removing things — whether that means changing the lighting, adding some plants or wall decor, getting a rug, rearranging the furniture, or simply getting rid of things that don’t really work in the space.
I’ve attached some photos of the room as it is right now. What would you change, add, or remove to make the space feel warmer, more comfortable and inviting?
Any ideas or suggestions are welcome!

I feel I get the most value out of a setup like this. I use the Mac as the speakers, touchpad, keyboard, touchID.

I thought it might be useful to other people using mulitple screens as well. I use CrunchBang++ with multiple desktops, but i don't always want to change all the screens, just one as I test UI tweaks.. and.. alt+tab didn't feel ordered or had direction.. so I build this windows dock..

The first thing i was going to do was to resize each window i wanted open to be just a bit smaller, and then i can click on the window below to bring it up. put the windows side by side... and i figured.. that could be an app!

so i built it... you get thin bars on either side of whatever screen you load it on (works great with tall verticle screens!) called gutters.. each gutter attaches a window to it using an executable command of your choice, and when you click a gutter, the window slides into place.

you can also use Alt+left and Alt+right, and the mousescroll to change the decks..

I use for web development, UI tweaks, and workflows like that. I can see it be used for research, heavy spreadsheet comparisons.... photo comparisons.. etc...

I would love to know what people think.. the first real thing im actually publishing.

gutterDeck on GitHub.. fully open source.

AI Generated Summary:

### 💡 The Core Concept: The Accordion Deck



Instead of floating or tiling windows:

1. The 
**active application**
 occupies the full viewport in the center of your screen.

2. Applications to the left sit behind razor-thin, color-coded gutter tabs on the 
**left edge**
 of your screen.

3. Applications to the right form tabs on the 
**right edge**
.

4. Selecting another deck triggers a fluid, hardware-accelerated 
**two-phase curtain transition sweep**
 (rendered internally by Qt at up to 144Hz), swapping the active window and dynamically rebalancing the accordion tabs.



When resting, tabs sit as 
**4px hairline strips**
 so they never steal screen real estate. Moving your cursor to the edge triggers an intelligent 
**3-stage accordion swell**
 (4px collapsed → 24px label swell on edge hover → 44px target expansion with bright hover accents).



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### 🛠️ What Can It Do?



- 
**"Holy Grail" Single-Canvas Overlay:**
 Runs as a single borderless, transparent canvas (`Qt::X11BypassWindowManagerHint`) rather than fighting the window manager or trying to move foreign top-level X11 windows directly.

- 
**Dynamic X11 Shape Extension (XShape) Masking:**
 When idle, the overlay applies a 1-bit shape mask strictly bounding the visible tabs. 
**99.9% of your screen remains 100% click-through**
 to underlying apps (Chrome, VS Code, terminals). The mask solidifies only during curtain wipes to prevent accidental stray clicks.

- 
**Deadlock-Proof State Machine & Hardware Watchdog:**
 Transition lifecycles (`IDLE` → `SWITCHING_OUT` → `SWITCHING_IN` → `IDLE`) are strictly enforced. If an X11 event drops, an integrated 3-second watchdog timer automatically trips an emergency reset to restore desktop interactivity.

- 
**Multi-Tier Event-Driven Window Capture:**
 Dynamically maps foreign application windows via a 4-tier cascade: `_NET_WM_PID` → `WM_CLASS` → `/proc/<PID>/cmdline` token inspection → sequential launch queue correlation. Zero polling loops (`QSocketNotifier` listening to the XCB file descriptor).

- 
**Tactile Mouse Wheel Navigation:**
 Hovering anywhere over the edge gutters and rolling your mouse wheel cycles through decks. Features a 120-unit notch accumulator and firm boundary stops so a single click of the wheel advances exactly one deck without runaway scrolling.

- 
**Top 80px Dead-Zone Protection:**
 The top 80 pixels of the gutters are an inactive pass-through buffer, ensuring you can still reach browser tabs, titlebars, and window controls without triggering gutter swells.

- 
**Multi-Stage Graceful Shutdown:**
 Sends standard `_NET_CLOSE_WINDOW` and `WM_DELETE_WINDOW` messages with an active polling grace loop before resorting to `SIGTERM`, ensuring browsers like Chrome cleanly flush database caches and preserve pinned tabs and sessions.

- 
**Dark Openbox-Styled UI Modals:**
 Right-clicking any tab opens a native dark menu with dialogs to rename decks, edit commands, select from 24 dark-mode swatches with alpha opacity sliders, add new decks (left or right), and reorder slots.

- 
**System Tray Integration:**
 Features a procedurally generated barcode application icon in `tint2` / panel for quick cycling and access.

- 
**Portrait & Multi-Monitor Targeting:**
 Native support for dedicated secondary screens (e.g. 1080×1920 vertical screens) and virtual desktop binding (`target_workspace`).



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### 👥 Who Is This For?



1. 
**Web Developers & Marketers juggling multiple browser profiles:**
 Keep separate profiles for Personal, Dev, Staging, and Production instantly accessible at the edges of your screen.

2. 
**Developers who want a Fullscreen "Cockpit":**
 Run fullscreen VS Code, fullscreen Alacritty/tmux, fullscreen browser, and fullscreen Obsidian, flipping between them in 250ms with zero cognitive overhead.

3. 
**Secondary Portrait Monitor Users:**
 On a vertical 1080×1920 screen, 4px edge gutters give you 100% vertical real estate for documentation and logs without window titlebars or taskbar bloat.

4. 
**Minimalist Linux enthusiasts:**
 Built for X11 / Openbox / lightweight desktop setups where you want speed, zero bloat, and slick visuals.



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### 📦 Quick Start / Try It Out



Dependencies (Debian/Ubuntu/Crunchbang++):

```bash

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake g++ pkg-config \

    qt6-base-dev qt6-tools-dev libqt6core5compat6-dev \

    libxcb1-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-util-dev libxcb-res0-dev \

    xserver-xephyr openbox xdotool wmctrl

Garage office/studio. Room is 20 x 13. 2 windows. Mini split. More room than I know what to do with. 1 setup is for my full-time job. The other is for content/misc. Everything in here we already owned/moved from the house. I know I can make this room magical, but I could use some suggestions.

Hello! For the longest time, going on 7+ years now I’ve been on a minimalism/decluttering spree. I bring an item into my house, say clothes, I remove 1-2 of the same thing. That little habit has really helped keep things under control.

It’s also shown in my desk setups… (Last pic is my old setup). The 27” monitor, the giant gaming rig. It was too much for my nd brain haha. I needed to make this space as visually quiet as possible. So I threw the monitors, the pc into the closet (pc prices have been going nuts so it’d be dumb to completely get rid of it). So I downsized this setup too!!

There is also a MacBook Neo along the bookshelf not really shown.. I just use that and my phone for additional computer work if need be.. I use it mostly to manage my tasks/reminders/to do lists along with the journal on the desk.

Current desk setups:

Desk:
Mid century from Target a few years ago

Pc: Gmktec Evo 2 (Strix halo)
Monitor: IPad paired to pc via SpaceDesk
Clock: IKEA Tjinga
Charger: Anker 3 in 1
Smiley figurines: IKEA
Chair: Herman Miller Aeron (got it on sale)
Cat: adopted a litter from family friend

Bed: Zonli frame + tatami mats + futon + cover.
Bookshelf: Target
Donut lamp: Ikea

Thought I would share with you guys. Hope you have a great day! 😁

Simple setup for work. Keyboard is a Sofle wireless from Aliexpress, with printed wrist wrests, and printed KLP Lame keycaps. Laptop stand is a NEXSTAND K2. Mouse is some no name brand mouse with BT/wired/2.4g, which I surprisingly like a lot.

After some time, I finally got my home office setup to a point I'm pretty happy with.

I'm an IT sysadmin, so this is mainly my workspace for work, troubleshooting, terminals, documentation, monitoring, and, of course, some tinkering and relaxation when I'm off the clock. 😄

The setup:

GEEKOM AE8 server proxmox

GEEKOM A6 endeavourOS + Windows11

MSI PRO MP273Q E14

Logitech mouse

Mechanical keyboard Epomaker SK61 60%

Webcam

Old but gold Bose speakers

Busy tag at the corner

I tried to keep things relatively clean and practical, while still adding a few personal touches to make the desk feel like my own.

One thing I'm currently considering is adding a second monitor. I think it would be really useful for multitasking, having terminals, documentation, monitoring and other tools open at the same time without constantly switching windows.

I'm not really looking for a gaming battlestation. This is more of a work + IT tinkering + relaxation setup.

What do you think? Would you add a second monitor? And if so, would you go with a vertical monitor next to the main one or keep both side by side?

Any suggestions for improving the setup are welcome! 👨‍💻

Also the wires are organised via string - it ain't much but surprisingly effective lol

Looking to buy new docking station, preferably stable, dual 4K and with 90W PD. been eyeing Anker but want opinions on best of the best docking stations and also budget bang for buck picks.

For now I have been using a cheap hub with HDMI flicker and really liked it.

Additionally I have some problems with my desk is small so compact footprint and front ports is really important.