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Hi everyone,

I'd like to have my apps as tiles within a full-screen view (ideally called via pressing the Windows button on the keyboard) in Linux, pretty much the Windows Metro look as seen above. I have all the icon files and just need to link them to the apps themselves. Might you know of a way to do that?

Thanks for your help! Temperche

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

KDE has some app launchers that look just like this, but last time I tried them, they were a little buggy🫠
But yeah, I think that would be your best bet. A good Win 8 style launcher for KDE and Kwin rules to make all apps launch fullscreen automatically.

Here's some launchers that might fit the bill:
https://store.kde.org/p/1584342/
https://store.kde.org/p/1897990/
https://store.kde.org/p/1364064/
https://store.kde.org/p/1677095/
https://store.kde.org/p/1973454/

This one is the most similar, however it did not work for me:
https://store.kde.org/p/1932321