Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Date: 20 Aug 2025 18:38:40 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <1080i67$3f9p0$1@dont-email.me> <1081ovk$3ngfe$1@dont-email.me> <1082qct$3v9rn$3@dont-email.me> <1082uqn$hrs$1@dont-email.me> <10841ja$7efa$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net v8xfhDbs8BHZPjq/N5kUWAsWNnlHmgmknT4jPOgoR+iYam7OTh Cancel-Lock: sha1:j4OiyAaQzLzW2OGdec9JexM8+TQ= sha256:87bynmKJT2sNJkzVHYgw4U0aCzIYhG4RY6OTRVwDQBo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71773 On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:39:06 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2025-08-19, Robert Heller wrote: > >> At Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:30:05 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence DÿOliveiro >> wrote: >> >> >>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote: >>> >>> > and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience >>> >>> CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was >>> embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this >>> century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be, >>> and tried to copy it. >> >> FVWM2 supports multiple desktops. Actually most Linux desktop >> environments support multiple desktops. > > I think I've only used more intensively one desktop environment which > lacked multiple desktops at least out of the box, and that did become > quite a limitation. Its name was EXPLORER.EXE. > > (Wasn't there a "powertoy" for Windows 4 (or maybe NT 5.x) to add > multiple/virtual desktops?) There was one for Windows 7 but iirc it was a third party offering and not part of a PowerToy release. It wasn't great but I did use it.