Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: > >> I've been seeing a lot of discussions about various WM's lately, and >> everyone seems to be extremely concerned about easy workspace switching. >> I'm just wondering what exactly everyone uses workspaces for? Every once >> in a while, if I'm doing two things at once that each require 5 windows >> a piece, I'll use two desktops/workspaces, but I don't think I've ever >> really gone over that. That leads me to believe that there's some >> unrealized benefit that I'm missing out on. So what do you use your >> workspaces for, and why are they so important?
Answering the OP: I never minimize windows, and I never have windows overlap if I can help it. But there are things I want full-screen; on my laptop, this is a single Emacs window, on desktop machines with real monitors it's an xterm running ssh next to an Emacs running on that machine. :-) It's also a Web browser or Gnucash. But using workspaces (in Openbox, for me) makes it easy to switch what I'm doing: F2 will always bring up my local IM system, F3 mail, F4 Web. To the responder: > - i'd login into 100 machines if i wanted to type passwd to each > and i will never use "passwd-less login".. if the hacker cracks 1 > server than they can propagate to the rest of your boxes Maybe you should get a better login system. I think most public-key systems are designed such that the private key never actually passes over the network; even using ssh to a compromised machine, the remote machine couldn't grab your private key. Similarly, Kerberos is explicitly designed so that compromised machines can't get your password, and a single compromised service (that doesn't have root) isn't even enough to pretend to be you to other services on the same machine. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
