Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away
Date	2025-08-20 18:38 +0000
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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
>> <ldo@nz.invalid> 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.

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This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-19 00:57 +0000
  Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jaworski1978@adres.pl> - 2025-08-19 06:12 +0200
    Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jaworski1978@adres.pl> - 2025-08-19 06:33 +0200
  Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> - 2025-08-19 19:59 +0800
    Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-19 21:30 +0000
      Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2025-08-19 22:45 +0000
        Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-08-19 17:59 -0700
        Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-20 09:39 +0100
          Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-20 18:38 +0000
            Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-08-20 11:54 -0700
  Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-20 09:27 +0100
    Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-20 12:45 +0200
    Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-20 18:34 +0000
      Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 10:55 +0100

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