Multiple desktops...

Post #207,417 by pwhysall 5/14/05 4:51:35 PM Reply	Multiple desktops... ...are not something I've ever been much of one for using. They add a layer of meta to my work that I just can't be arsed with. If I have to spend time and effort organising my desktop, then the thing ain't working right for me. Expose, on the other hand, is the mutt's nuts. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #207,418 by broomberg 5/14/05 5:08:55 PM Reply	How many programs do you keep open, on how large a screen?
Post #207,425 by folkert 5/14/05 9:04:06 PM Reply	Sometimes 30 Xterms doing everything from Updates to compiling to watching logs, 2 Firefox sessions with multiple tabs per, Evolution, GIMP, Inkscape a music player, VMware with Windows inside that only the Office suite or Our Mailing suite running, maybe a firefox sessions as well. That machine runs a backup DNS server and a failover DHCP, as well as stock CUPS CLient, Xserver, etc... Sometimes I even use the Console (running at 1024x768 with 50 lines) to do some more taxing work instead of X. Mind you this machine is a 1.4GHz AMD 266FSB with 1.5GB of Memory (PC133 at that) and only when I am chugging along on an "apt-get dist-upgrade" on the machine, do I really feel it. All this on a 17" Monitor, for now. Still trying to get a Dual G5. Which I'd get a Flatscreen 21" for. When I get that, I WILL dual boot it. Both MAC-OSX and Linux. I just WILL NOT do without Linux. Yes, Fink is nice. But I like my X Configs done the way I want'em. I typically have 4 Desktops, One for General, one for Admin tasks, one for programs I have open but don't want in my way for now and one for E-Mail and Browsing. All 4 have the IM stuff in it. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [image\|http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg\|\|\|\|]
Post #207,442 by broomberg 5/14/05 11:55:42 PM Reply	WTF? Not you. People who are silly enough to claim that a single desktop OS-X is enough.
Post #207,448 by boxley 5/15/05 1:09:48 AM Reply	I only give a crap about one fire at a time one xterm for one issue thst may need to be exported back, several others for other, lesse needs. I have an issue I open a ssh session, export back to the desktop and swap between them. My mind is multitasking my desktops are single issue. all brains dont work alike., thanx, bill All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett [link\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/] Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 48 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #207,447 by pwhysall 5/15/05 1:08:49 AM Reply	Quite a few, really. Half a dozen or so running applications, with probably 20 or 30 windows. The big problem went away with the advent of tabbed browsing and IRC :-) Screen is 1280x1024. If I'm "developing"[0] one of my Awful Perl Programs, then this goes up by about 10 or so (perl module, perl program, source data, source data, output, perl documentation 1, google window, run window, debugger) It's far, far faster for me to whack F9 and grab the window I want than it is for me to footle around with multiple desktops; all they do is provide me with a mechanism for losing windows. [0] A process best described as edit/hack/run/swear/edit/hack/run/swear/google/google Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #207,450 by broomberg 5/15/05 1:13:20 AM Reply	30 goddamn windows On a single screen? You're insane. Obviously the Mac is not for me.
Post #207,453 by pwhysall 5/15/05 1:35:00 AM Reply	No, it's not insane. People drive cars with automatic transmissions of their own free will. That's insane. And yet they seem to get from A to B pretty well. See what I mean? Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #207,455 by broomberg 5/15/05 1:53:42 AM Reply	No

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