On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:19:41AM -0600, 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?
Basically, workspaces are handy for keeping stuff open that I haven't finished with, but I don't want to work on at present. So, for example, here's a tree (grafted together from bits of pstree output) of my current desktop layout: pwm |-workspace 1 | |-konqueror --profile webbrowsing # web | |-x-terminal-emul -title bylands -name ... # mailing lists | | `-ssh... | |-x-terminal-emul -title ice -name ... # irc | | `-ssh... | `-xterm | `-mutt # email | |-workspace 2 # working on my CV | |-x-terminal-emul -name zenburn # here. | | `-screen | | |-vim cv.tex | | `-latex cv | `-advi cv.dvi | |-workspace 3 # misc. stuff: | |-amsn /usr/bin/amsn # instant messenging | `-slrn # usenet | |-workspace 4 ... Right now I'm procrastinating so I'm not working on my CV, but its there when I pull myself together :-) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
