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Re: I am beginning to like this Linux stuff

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On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 22:43:40 +0100, mick wrote:

> On 28/08/2015 21:09:34, DaveG wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:31:07 +0000, mick wrote:
>>
>>> Today I hooked up to one of my 23 inch monitors and it has just took
>>> everything up another level, so much more real estate to play with
>>> which makes it all come alive.
>>
>> Have you for multiple virtual desktops set up too?  It;s usually the
>> default on most Linux desktops.
> 
> No, not yet, I'm still at walk pace ;-)

Look on the task bar.  If it's set already for more than one you'll see a 
"blank" area showing two boxes side by side or box divided into 
quarters.  It's "active" in that any open windows on a desktop will show 
in teeny tiny micro form on the weeny little desktops.

On Xubuntu you can change it in Settings --> Settings Manager --> 
Workspaces. I'd imagine it's similar in whatever desktop you are using.

Once you get the hang of it, you use compiz/special effects stuff and set 
it so moving the mouse to a "hot spot", eg a screen corner or top/bottom/
side middle, or even a mouse button to get an OpenGL 3D cude you can 
rotate/click to select which desktop you want.  I tend not to use that 
with two screens though.  It looks a bit weird on dual screens!

>> I sometimes find duel 19" screens are not enough and don't want to keep
>> minimising/restoring app windows.
> 
> I like just one screen, 23 inch is nice which gives A4 portrait size in
> height.  24 inch perhaps but any more and I think it would get
> uncomfortable to be in front of for a long time. Just measured from eye
> to screen, 22/24 inches LOL , sad or what!
> Though I had a 19 inch in the garage which would do for the Linux
> machine.  Just been and measured it and its only a 15 inch :-(
> Might get a KVM switch and have the two boxes feeding one monitor,
> although I kept typing on the keyboard in front of the monitor today
> which was the wrong one for the linux box which sits ninety degrees to
> my right. :-)

So plug the k/b via the KVN too! :-)

To some extent I understand what you mean about one big screen instead of 
two or more screens.  The upside of two screens from my point of view is 
that I can maximise a window and take up one screen, not the whole of my 
one and only screen.  Likewise, the task bar etc appears on the primary 
screen and not the other screen(s) which has my background widgets etc on 
it.

As I type here on the laptop, I'm upgrading all four PCs using four xterm 
windows on the second virtual desktop and have Pan and Firefox open on 
the first virtual desktop.  It helps keep the task bar manageable since 
that's 1/3rd used by the desktop switcher, time/date, live weather, 
volume, battery charge and network status info and it's easier to switch 
between meta-tasks if I keep similar tasks on separate virtual desktops
:-)

-- 
Resistance is not futile.  Its Voltage divided by Current
It's the (Ohms) Law.

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I am beginning to like this Linux stuff mick <no.spam@junk.mail> - 2015-08-28 19:31 +0000
  Re: I am beginning to like this Linux stuff DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2015-08-28 20:09 +0000
    Re: I am beginning to like this Linux stuff mick <nospam@junk.mail> - 2015-08-28 22:43 +0100
      Re: I am beginning to like this Linux stuff DaveG <nospam@nospam.net> - 2015-08-29 00:07 +0000
        Re: I am beginning to like this Linux stuff mick <nospam@junk.mail> - 2015-08-29 01:47 +0100

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