The message 20051126145705.GC6331@areti.co.uk from Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk contains these words:
All I have ATM is the mail/news software, Nero and a couple of text files. Writing wibbles on the Windows box I might have Explorer, Notepad, Pagemill, Arachnophilia, Firefox, Opera, WS_FTP, Nero and ZIMACS, as well as the two text documents I usually have there for making notes on.
As I said earlier in the thread my tendency is to have a number of rxvt (lightweight xterm) window running. I use mutt for mail in one of them and tin for news in another. I have firefox running in a screen of its own (with an rxvt window behind). The occasional other application I need I tend to run by typing its name in a terminal window. I have a GUI version of my editor (xvile) that I pop up for program development etc.
Well, I've been playing with Sarge and I'll try motleytasking with several windows tiled when I get some new glasses.
With the list of apps I mentioned earlier, you can add Paintshop Pro sometimes and Irfanview nearly always, as well as one of the other graphics progs I have, and which does things better than either of the other two.
I can see the attraction of (say) having Firefox, Opera, a text editor and another very basic browser open and tiled, but as I said, squinting...