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From: David Bolt on 30 Jan 2010 09:48
On Saturday 30 Jan 2010 13:45, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
houghi painted this mural:

> WLS wrote:
>>> I have 12 on two screens. Used to have another 4 on another screen, but
>>> that one broke and I am not sure if I want to spend the money on it.

I only have the one screen on this machine. If I ever find enough space
on the top of my desk[0], I might consider setting up my old monitor as
a second screen. At the moment, it's just not going to happen.

>> I am definitely not doing enough, I only have one desktop.
>
> It is not so much about working as it is about working efficiently.
> I have the progranms open that I use most of the time and grou them
> together on a desktop. That way I do not need to start programs. I just
> go to whatever desktop they are on and there they are.

Sounds about the same as mine. I have Firefox open on several desktops,
various different sites in each of them. I have Konqueror open with
even more sites, mostly on the couple of desktops where I'm writing
and/or debugging PHP scripts and web pages. I have Kate open on three
desktops, with source code in one session, spec files in another, and
a few scripts in the third. Dolphin and Konqueror are open showing
various file systems, also spread about the desktops. Knode and Kmail
share a desktop, and why not :) And then there's the half-dozen
different konsoles open, each with between one and six shells open,
one of which contains a screen session with three other shells in use.


[0] Two PCs, one or two laptops depending on what I'm doing, one iMac
and an old xbox take up almost all the space. the rest is occupied by
bits of paper, books, DVDs, keyboard, mouse and just about enough space
for a cup.

Regards,
David Bolt

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From: WLS on 30 Jan 2010 10:57
On 01/30/2010 09:48 AM, David Bolt wrote:
> On Saturday 30 Jan 2010 13:45, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
> houghi painted this mural:
>
>> WLS wrote:
>>>> I have 12 on two screens. Used to have another 4 on another screen, but
>>>> that one broke and I am not sure if I want to spend the money on it.
>
> I only have the one screen on this machine. If I ever find enough space
> on the top of my desk[0], I might consider setting up my old monitor as
> a second screen. At the moment, it's just not going to happen.
>
>>> I am definitely not doing enough, I only have one desktop.
>>
>> It is not so much about working as it is about working efficiently.
>> I have the progranms open that I use most of the time and grou them
>> together on a desktop. That way I do not need to start programs. I just
>> go to whatever desktop they are on and there they are.
>
> Sounds about the same as mine. I have Firefox open on several desktops,
> various different sites in each of them. I have Konqueror open with
> even more sites, mostly on the couple of desktops where I'm writing
> and/or debugging PHP scripts and web pages. I have Kate open on three
> desktops, with source code in one session, spec files in another, and
> a few scripts in the third. Dolphin and Konqueror are open showing
> various file systems, also spread about the desktops. Knode and Kmail
> share a desktop, and why not :) And then there's the half-dozen
> different konsoles open, each with between one and six shells open,
> one of which contains a screen session with three other shells in use.
>
>
> [0] Two PCs, one or two laptops depending on what I'm doing, one iMac
> and an old xbox take up almost all the space. the rest is occupied by
> bits of paper, books, DVDs, keyboard, mouse and just about enough space
> for a cup.
>
> Regards,
> David Bolt
>

Well, I can see the benefits of using multiple desktops. I do play
around with PHP and Ruby on Rails, and could have a desktop for each.
Others for web browsers I'm testing out. I'm going to experiment and see
what works for me. Remembering what is where could be a problem. :)


From: David Bolt on 30 Jan 2010 12:00
On Saturday 30 Jan 2010 15:57, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
WLS <rafter22atverizondotnet> painted this mural:

<snip>

> Well, I can see the benefits of using multiple desktops. I do play
> around with PHP and Ruby on Rails, and could have a desktop for each.
> Others for web browsers I'm testing out. I'm going to experiment and see
> what works for me. Remembering what is where could be a problem. :)

Name the desktops and then, when you hover the mouse pointer over each
one, you'll given the name you gave it as well as a list of what
windows are open on each desktop.


Regards,
David Bolt

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From: Roger Pryor on 30 Jan 2010 13:32
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:35:55 +0000
David Bolt <blacklist-me(a)davjam.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 30 Jan 2010 00:06, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
> Russell D. painted this mural:
>
> > In KDE 3.5 I was able to use a different picture for each of my
> > desktops. I for the life of me cannot figure out how to do that with
> > KDE 4.3. Is it possible? If so, how?
>
> Click on that little "tear drop"[0] widget in the top-right of the
> desktop and select "Configure Plasma" and then check the
> "Different activity for each desktop" checkbox. After clicking on Okay,
> each desktop will be separately configurable as to the type,
> background, etc. which means that if you're using "Folder view" to make
> it feel like a KDE3.5 desktop, you'll need to switch each desktop[1]
> from the default "Desktop" view.
>

And how does one go back to the single-themed view?? I'm stuck!

Thanks

Roger Pryor <rpryor(a)infoserve.net>
From: David Bolt on 30 Jan 2010 13:42
On Saturday 30 Jan 2010 17:29, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
houghi painted this mural:

> David Bolt wrote:
>> I only have the one screen on this machine. If I ever find enough space
>> on the top of my desk[0], I might consider setting up my old monitor as
>> a second screen. At the moment, it's just not going to happen.
>
> One scren on "this" machine means that you have more then one screen.

I do. I still have the old monitor, although it's packed away at the
moment.

> So hook up the two screens to your main computer and run vncviewer to
> connect to that one (or more then one) machine. This not only gives you
> two screens. It also frees space as you only need one keyboard and
> mouse.

I already use VNC and NX to remote connect to my other machines,
including the iMac, which has its own built-in screen.

Unfortunately, I don't actually have any spare space to set up the old
monitor, at least not at the moment. I might do in the future, but that
would depend on me converting my other systems be rack mounted. Then I
could move one off my desk and get back the space it's presently using.


Regards,
David Bolt

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