Very good question! And you might be surprised, as I was, to find out the answer.
The arrow extends the pager to provide and additional FIVE pagers, for a total of six (#0-5), each one
containing 4 separate desktop areas! That's a whopping 24 desktops available. I know, I know the math is easy,
but who the heck needs 24 desktops simultaneously? But as much as it's overkill I can't help but be impressed.

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Technically, they're 'pages' not desktops.

FVWM supports a concept of splitting its virtual desktops into 'Pages'. It's a feature I've never found a use for so I just make each of my virtual desktops a single page, and 4 is more than enough for me.

I'd presume it is suitable for multi-monitor setups, or perhaps from the low-res era where one could use the view port smaller than the buffer size?

No?

From the FVWM documentation :

Fvwm provides multiple virtual desktops for users who wish to use them. The screen is a viewport onto a desktop which may be larger than the screen. Several distinct desktops can be accessed (concept: one desktop for each project, or one desktop for each application, when view applications are distinct). Since each desktop can be larger than the physical screen, divided into m by n pages which are each the size of the physical screen, windows which are larger than the screen or large groups of related windows can easily be viewed.

The (m by n) size (i.e. number of pages) of the virtual desktops can be changed any time, by using the DesktopSize command. All virtual desktops must be (are) the same size. The total number of distinct desktops does not need to be specified, but is limited to approximately 4 billion total.

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Now someone find an application for that? Elon M. You listen?

Plasma 5 with a new kite aerial photo, taken today (well, now it's yesterday actually).

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Cool photo! It looks like long sand dunes under the water surface.

Yeah, I thought that was interesting too. I can make out at least 4 of them.

As a 12 year old I once bought 6 x 400 foot rolls of kite string to see if I could get a box kite up to nearly 2400 feet. At that time we lived just 2 miles from an international airport and I worried that might be a problem but it was just childhood imagination LOL. However though I now wonder what a great photo could be taken from that height and how high your kite was flying, montagdude, back then I had no thought about how long it would take to reel back in almost a half mile of string with substantial wind resistance. All the onlookers left long before I was even half finished.

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If you still have the equipment in storage, you know what it is you have to do ...

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Montagdude, where was that photo taken? Interesting looking coastline.

Your kite photos are cool. How do you aim the camera? Or do you not, and just have it shoot like 1000 pics and sort through them later?

I had about 600 feet of line out the day I took that picture, and it took nearly an hour to get it back in. Granted, it was pulling unusually strong and steady that day. Yeah, flying high is my favorite too, but you shouldn't do it near an airport.

It's the Chesapeake Bay, taken off the southwestern coast of Maryland. Off in the distance is the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (to the north in this picture) if you want to look it up on a map.

I use a fixed rig that can be aimed as desired on the ground. It takes a picture every 5 seconds until it reaches 400 or I stop it. In practice I get a bit of variety due to the kite moving left and right, and of course, different altitudes as I let out the line. Other people have fancier setups that rotate in one or two axes either automatically or via radio control, but I like the simplicity and light weight of this setup. Here are a couple pictures of it.

https://flic.kr/p/2kkVFWU

https://flic.kr/p/2kmK2Rb

It's a really fun hobby, especially with drones becoming more heavily regulated. I like the DIY aspect.

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It has been a long time now since i posted a desktop image here...

https://imgur.com/34iFHAx.png

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