In plasma, under system settings > shortcuts > kwin, there are hotkeys for the following: - Switch to desktop 1 to 20 - Switch one desktop Right, Left, Up, Down.
You can also arrange your desktops in multiple rows, which looks nicer when you do "Show All Desktops. On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 4:12 PM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dale, > > Click the Plasma widget for your virtual desktops, go into Settings, see > if the keystrokes are listed there. > If not, in your settings app there is somewhere an applet for assigning > keystrokes to actions. It tends to be hidden so you gonna have to search > for it. > There you can assign any keystroke you want to an action. I like > Ctrl-Alt-arrow to virtual desktop up/down/left/right. > Setting the wrap function to true in virtual desktop settings helps with > this. > > You might want to take a long look into your soul and examine why exactly > you want 18 virtual desktops. I have 4 and sometimes that is excessive :-) > > > Alan > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 9:59 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> I've googled for this several times when I got a few minutes. So far, I >> don't see a way to do this. As some know, I'm on the path to building a >> new rig. Some of you are about to see why that is. I have 18 virtual >> desktop thingys here. Sadly, quite often something is on all of them. >> That and the age of my current system is why I want to build a new rig. >> Anyway, I sometimes need to switch to another desktop but the plasma >> thingy at the bottom is slow or not responding. I can switch with the >> function keys up until about 10. After that, those keys seems to be >> used for something else or I just run out of function keys. There's >> only 12 of them on my keyboard anyway. I'm six short. >> >> Is there a way with the keyboard to switch to a desktop above 10? Even >> if it just switches up one at a time, that would work. Say switch to 10 >> and then keep hitting a set of keys to go to 11, then 12, then 13 etc >> etc. Eventually, I get to the one I want. >> >> Ideas? Is this possible? >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> P. S. Dug out my older Gigabyte 770T mobo. Found the CPU that used to >> be on it and installed it and a OEM cooler. Got a new power supply >> too. It seems the video card is bad that used to be on it. New one on >> the way. This could be a new torrent box and/or NAS box. Maybe. >> >> > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com >
