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On a related note, I just

free-zombie — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:25:32 +0100

On a related note, I just thought "AAAAARGH ! I need more desktops !" and made it so (four -> six). Moving from two screens back to one has a big impact on desktop structure; with two screens, I was, in a way, dealing partly with extended desktops, and partly with a pair of half desktops.

On olvwm and also when I

tbuitenh — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:31:34 +0100

On olvwm and also when I played with the (proprietary) QNX OS, I used nine desktops. (On olvwm I would sometimes grow to 16 or even more, as needed. AFAIK it's the only WM that allows a real number of desktops (eg 4.5) and that allows the view to be anywhere on the plane of virtual desktops rather than stuck to an integer position on the grid... you gotta configure it right to get that behavior, though).

Now I use a clone of the plan 9 window manager, with no desktops, and apparently no alt-tab like functionality. It's a bit cramped.

I always tended to use 4

libervisco — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:27:36 +0100

I always tended to use 4 desktops, almost traditionally. AFAIK this was the usual default set up around 2004/2005 which I just got used to and then if I encountered a set up with less than four workspaces I usually set it to four.

That said I didn't experiment much with anything more so can't say how that feels. I have my routine and four workspaces are pretty fine for me.

That said, congratulations on your geekomplishment.

Eventually, it would be

Jose — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:57:02 +0100

Eventually, it would be nice to see such a tool (multiple desktops) in action. I have seen the beryl examples where multiple desktops are used. With or without beryl, they have a value that hopefully can be captured visually.

[Note to self: really try and remember to look into the one-click/two-click shortcut since its fast and convenient not to have to reach for a keyboard short-cut (which some will never learn) or to move the mouse around and aim properly to switch desktops or even to slide the mouse to the side of the desktop to change to the adjacent one (eg, fvwm95 had/has this feature).

Actually, keyboard short-cuts are very good.]

I was just thinking that

Jose — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:03:59 +0100

I was just thinking that it would be nice to have a right mouse click anywhere allow you to change desktops. Perhaps even assigning a single mouse click (for many buttoned mice) to alternating between certain active desktops. [I think this can be added to KDE without recompiling anything. Maybe I'll remember to check later.]

Today is a historic day...

land0 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:54:51 +0100

...in this geeks life. What, You ask could be so important to cause me to create such a fanfare?