do you use more than one desktop, or multiples

Absolutely Its one of the greatest features In the windows environment I start to feel cluttered now. Having more than one desktop makes working on things so much easier and organized. I know you can get modications to do this but windows is still no where near customizable as linux.

GNOME all the way

How can you resist the coolness that is Enlightenment window slidage when you switch desktops?

I use fluxbox with two desktops: one called 'main' and one called 'other'.

In 'main' there's mostly 'phoenix' and some terminals, on 'other' is 'licq', 'xchat', etc...

So far I predominantly use just one, but recently I've found that a second is really handy for reading documentation while learning a new program (did this for LyX recently). At first I wanted to have window-sliding like Enlightenment, but I have Fluxbox now, and *really* like just using the scroll wheel to do it. (need to do it over empty desktop area, but I never have windows maximized anyway).

I haven't used desktops 3 or 4 yet, but I'm sure I will someday I haven't done much with tabs in fluxbox yet either, but tabs are by far my favorite feature of mozilla/phoenix (Any time I'm using someone else's Windows box with Internet Explorer, I'm always trying to middle-click links to open them in a new tab), so I'm sure fluxbox's tabs will grow on me.

I _really like_ multiple desktops especially if you need the inernet for information and not as a toy.

I use fluxbox whenever possible but end up in gnome a lot for the sake of my customers.

Bo

KDE. One desktop for terminal, one for documentation, one for web surfing, and one for any other stuff I feel like doing at the time. Linux rules.. I hear MS is going to steal the multiple desktop idea for the next windoze version (codename "longboot").. :-)

Blackbox, 3 desktops...with bbkeys to switch between them.
Runs pretty good on the laptop.

Actually, they already have - these are from my NT 5.1 - hit the green button near the systray and *zooop*, back into place it slides. Click one of the quarterpanels and *zooop*, up it slides. They've also got 'X-Mouse', or hover-activated window focus, with auto-raise. But I imagine it'll be standard in 'quickcrash' rather than an add-on, like it is now.

http://www.geocities.com/j_sun123/ss1.png
http://www.geocities.com/j_sun123/qp1.png

(Yahoo's a pain about pic-links, so copy to the address bar if you're interested.)

Those pics are an exaggeration - I rarely use more than a couple either there or in blackbox, but I use them more in blackbox. Only two named - as 'Primary' and 'Secondary'. And bbkeys does rock, doesn't it?

http://www.geocities.com/j_sun123/ss-bb.png

I know this isn't a screenshot thread, but it seemed relevant. (No way would I 'show off' my desktops in those threads full of amazing setups.)

Better than multiple desktops is multiple consoles. I usually use all 6 that I have and run screen sometimes to get more. But, yeah, lots of screens of whatever kind is one of Linux's many good points.

Whats the name of the program???

Cant go looking for every green box

Is it stable, can you run it in Win2k???

Well, on the screenshot I see MSVDM next to the green button.
This is my guess on the program's name:
M(icro)S(oft)V(irtual)D(esktop)M(aybe now those linux users will start using windows as we stole everything we possibly could)

*lol*

Hey, I don't mind. I haven't been able to get Linux on my main box yet, so it makes it a lot nicer for me in the meantime, and I'm not fooled - I'm still aiming to get Linux here.

Bosah - It's called DeskmanPowerToy.exe so you might be able to find it that way, or just searching for PowerToys. But I'm afraid you're out of luck if you're running Win2K. I think it's XP specific, though there are various Win2K 'power toys', too. (Dumb expression - like -1 + 1 = 0 is power.) And as far as stable, VDM works great. I blew out my video changing icons with TweakUI (another 'power toy') but was able to fix it. Somehow I dropped down to 256 colors stripping arrows from desktop shortcuts. Go figure.

But, I prefer console apps and command line for a lot of stuff and NT is almost pure GUI. It'd take a lot more than a few nifty things swiped from Linux to make MS/NT tolerable to me.

I assume that this is actually about desktops, not
window managers or desktop environments? :)

I use fluxbox - usually have stuff spread over three
or four desktops :)

Cheers,
Tink

I use desktop2 for a term session or two. I really like it.