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From: Sidney Lambe on 24 Mar 2010 11:25 On comp.os.linux.misc, John Hasler <jhasler(a)newsguy.com> wrote: > Jean-David Beyer writes: >> I usually have one running, but not always. Once I have loaded one in >> the morning, even if I exit it, it reloads very fast as it tends to be >> in the cache. I tend to close it if I need more desktop space for >> something else. > > That's why I have four desktops with sixteen panes each. That's absurd and isn't anything but showmanship. To impress the ignorant. Useless eye-candy. No one needs 64 windows open at a time. I have 7, full-screen windows open. There's nothing on the screen but the app and a narrow strip, one character high, at the bottom of the screen which tells me the number and name of each window and which one I was at last and where I am now. The strip is also used to display brief and short messages like "mail on the foo account". If I need to I can split the screen in various ways so I can view the output of two or more apps at the same time. These uncluttered screens make working and playing very pleasant. I don't keep a window open displaying system info all the time, as I am sure John does. If I need system info I enter the alias "sys" in a window running bash and it runs a simple script that displays all critical system information, updated every 2 seconds. When I've seen what I need to see I kill the script with Ctrl-c. I can be done with this and be back at my working window before these Windows refugees have got their mouse in hand. Sid
From: Sidney Lambe on 24 Mar 2010 11:44 On comp.os.linux.misc, Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > On comp.os.linux.misc, John Hasler <jhasler(a)newsguy.com> wrote: >> Jean-David Beyer writes: >>> I usually have one running, but not always. Once I have loaded one in >>> the morning, even if I exit it, it reloads very fast as it tends to be >>> in the cache. I tend to close it if I need more desktop space for >>> something else. >> >> That's why I have four desktops with sixteen panes each. > > That's absurd and isn't anything but showmanship. To impress > the ignorant. > > Useless eye-candy. No one needs 64 windows open at a time. > > I have 7, full-screen windows open. There's nothing on the screen > but the app and a narrow strip, one character high, at the bottom > of the screen which tells me the number and name of each window > and which one I was at last and where I am now. The strip is also > used to display brief and short messages like "mail on the foo > account". If I need to I can split the screen in various ways > so I can view the output of two or more apps at the same time. > > These uncluttered screens make working and playing very pleasant. > I don't keep a window open displaying system info all the time, > as I am sure John does. If I need system info I enter the alias > "sys" in a window running bash and it runs a simple script that > displays all critical system information, updated every 2 seconds. > When I've seen what I need to see I kill the script with Ctrl-c. > > I can be done with this and be back at my working window > before these Windows refugees have got their mouse in hand. > > Sid > Actually, to do that I would generally hit Ctrl-z to suspend the app I'm working with and I'd have bash in front of me and enter sys at the prompt, take a look at what's going on, kill the sys script with Ctrl-c and enter fg to bring up the app I was working with. Sid
From: Keith Keller on 24 Mar 2010 12:14 On 2010-03-24, John Hasler <jhasler(a)newsguy.com> wrote: > > That's why I have four desktops with sixteen panes each. Some of us can barely count that high, much less remember what windows we have open in each pane. ;-) --keith, who can definitely count to at least 1 -- kkeller-usenet(a)wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (try just my userid to email me) AOLSFAQ=http://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt see X- headers for PGP signature information
From: John Hasler on 24 Mar 2010 12:28 I wrote: > That's why I have four desktops with sixteen panes each. Keith writes: > Some of us can barely count that high, much less remember what windows > we have open in each pane. I keep track in my visual memory (though in a abstract form). I have an image of a 4x4x4 structure (with a 4th dimension for browser tabs, but I only call that up when I am looking at a browser window). The pager provides hints. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Jean-David Beyer on 24 Mar 2010 13:06
John Hasler wrote: > It's a lousy analogy. Applications which you have open but are not > using do not use any resources. > Actually, you do consume a slot in the process table, but this is trivial these days. Absolutely trivial. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 13:05:01 up 7 days, 5:07, 3 users, load average: 4.43, 4.50, 4.60 |