050831 John Dangler wrote: > As in - workspace1 | workspace2 | workspace3 | workspace4 > (bottom right of the task bar in gnome desktop) > I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace > and then switch to another, those apps don't appear, > I'd like to customize what starts & is available in each individually.
You must be completely new to any kind of Linux desktop (smile). Workspaces -- or 'desktops' as a lot of us tend to call them -- are the basic way of organising your activities with Linux. All (?) window managers have them & they work fairly uniformly. I use KDE (also Xfce & Blackbox earlier) & have never used Gnome, but have never noticed a significant difference in how they function. I have 10 defined: (1) games, (2) user console, (3) editor, (4) e-mail, (5) Internet (Firefox & Lynx usually), (6) Viewer (photos, maps), (7) root console, (8) Gkrellm (system info), (9-10) spare, eg for work. Your activities may be different, but that should give you an idea. I find 2 - 3 apps running on any 1 desktop is enough: you can minimise them to the taskbar or shade them to show only the titlebar. You can move app windows to another desktop via R-click on the titlebar (KDE) & KDE (I assume Gnome too) will restart apps on the same desktops after you shut down & re-enter X (typically after an overnight power-off). You can move between desktops via the pager in the panel (as you know) or via Cntl-F1 etc (KDE) or via mouse-wheel on panel or empty desktop. It's easy to create/remove new/existing desktops, tho' I never do that. KDE allows you to have different backgrounds for each window, eg I have a fiery orange-red for (7) root console: see your control centre. HTH -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
