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MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop wrote:
Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:37:50PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
[...] Often I forget which virtual desktop I left one of the many apps I tend to have open and so end up switching through all of them. [...]
Surely any half decent virtual desktop system provides you with some sort of clue what's running on which desktop in the desktop selection pane doesn't it? [...]
<p class="controversial"> Is any virtual desktop system half-decent? Personally, I find that computer desktops are similar to real desktops: you have to be very careful to keep them uncluttered, else you can't find what you want when you want it. Desktop controls with easier ways to tidy up beat virtual desktop systems every time.</p>
If you use a sane window manager, then that deals with keeping things tidy (even if it does mean that you have to change some of those bad habits you had previously).
GNUstep applications have an invaluable "hide" menu command which packs all the application's windows away until you double-click the icon to unpack them again. What other good "clean-up" controls are out there?
GNUstep apps also tend to blat the screen with lots of windows, so it would be insane for them to not have that feature. I find that sticking things in consistant places *really* helps with finding them again, IRC and mail current live at the top of my first virtual desktop, the two bottom areas are set aside for random terminals, the second desktop is for full screen firefox and evolution, and the third desktop is for full screen or split screen development (depending on what I'm doing). If I need to use something that will fire up lots of windows, then desktop 4 comes in (and that's where things like GIMP end up).
Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk