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authorIvan Molodetskikh <yalterz@gmail.com>2025-05-17 11:02:26 +0300
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wiki/Overview: Update wording
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The Overview is a zoomed-out view of your workspaces and windows.
It lets you see what's going on at a glance, navigate, and drag windows around.
-Open it with the `toggle-overview` bind, via the top-left hot corner, or via a touchpad four-finger swipe up.
-While in the overview, all keyboard binds keep working, while pointing devices get easier:
+Open it with the `toggle-overview` bind, via the top-left hot corner, or using a touchpad four-finger swipe up.
+While in the overview, all keyboard shortcuts keep working, while pointing devices get easier:
-- Mouse: left click for interactive-move, right click to scroll a workspace left/right (no holding Mod required).
+- Mouse: left click and drag windows to move them, right click and drag to scroll workspaces left/right, scroll to switch workspaces (no holding Mod required).
- Touchpad: two-finger scrolling that matches the normal three-finger gestures.
-- Touchscreen: one-finger scrolling, or one-finger long press for interactive move.
+- Touchscreen: one-finger scrolling, or one-finger long press to move a window.
> [!TIP]
> The overview needs to draw a background under every workspace.
-> So, layer-shell surfaces work this way: the *background* and *bottom* layers zoom out and remain on the workspaces, while the *top* and *overlay* layers remain on top of the overview.
+> So, layer-shell surfaces work this way: the *background* and *bottom* layers zoom out together with the workspaces, while the *top* and *overlay* layers remain on top of the overview.
>
> Put your bar on the *top* layer.
-Drag-and-drop will scroll the workspaces up/down in the overview, and will activate a workspace if you hold it above for a moment.
+Drag-and-drop will scroll the workspaces up/down in the overview, and will activate a workspace when holding it for a moment.
Combined with the hot corner, this lets you do a mouse-only DnD across workspaces.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5f09c5b7-ff40-462b-8b9c-f1b8073a2cbb
-You can also drag-and-drop a window to a new workspace above, below, or in-between existing workspaces.
+You can also drag-and-drop a window to a new workspace above, below, or between existing workspaces.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b76d5349-aa20-4889-ab90-0a51554c789d