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What is the use of workspaces?
I've googled before I can post it here, but still, I'm not convinced enough. How is workspace switching making our jobs easier? I see that though you move to another workspace, your taskbar(its called the kicker right?  Please correct me if I'm wrong) is still cluttered with applications. But, this doesn't happen on an older distro (FC4) which I observed, but the newer distros have the applications still cluttered  Any suggestions?
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24-03-2007, 06:16 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Afaik u can configure ur workspace settings to display only the apps running in the current workspace
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24-03-2007, 06:21 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Could you please tell how to do that Pathik?
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24-03-2007, 11:32 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
In KDE, right click on pane/ltaskbar/kicker ->configure panel-> taskbar and the 1st option.
I find it useful only when i uncheck the above option, it doesn't look cluttered that way and with 3d desktop it looks cool  you can have different backgrounds for each desktop if you want 
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25-03-2007, 08:22 AM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
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In KDE, right click on pane/ltaskbar/kicker ->configure panel-> taskbar and the 1st option.
I find it useful only when i uncheck the above option, it doesn't look cluttered that way and with 3d desktop it looks cool you can have different backgrounds for each desktop if you want |
Thanks for that, but I'm on gnome and runnning opensuse 10.2
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25-03-2007, 06:04 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
for gnome:-
u can send programs like torrents clients,wget,,Gaim,thunderbird,xmms etc which are running what u don't need them on you taskbar.
thats for which i use the workscapes
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25-03-2007, 07:16 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Main purpose of the workspace is to organise your programs and keep the desktop unclutered.
You can use each workspace for a different task, like workspace 1 for broswer and net applications. Workspace 2 for all editors and IDE's and stuff, workspace 3 for games and such. This, is just an example use it as you like. With upto 20 workspaces, you can quite nicely organise all your stuff.
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25-03-2007, 08:30 PM
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Main purpose of the workspace is to organise your programs and keep the desktop unclutered.
You can use each workspace for a different task, like workspace 1 for broswer and net applications. Workspace 2 for all editors and IDE's and stuff, workspace 3 for games and such. This, is just an example use it as you like. With upto 20 workspaces, you can quite nicely organise all your stuff.
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OK, I got the point, but the kicker is still cluttered with all the open programs right? Few applications do have the option of closing it to the system tray, the rest will be jostling for space on the kicker.
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25-03-2007, 08:55 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
It's not kicker in the first place it's gnome panel.
I will have to see when I get into gnome. But, for me gnome shows only the programmes running on the active workspace.
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25-03-2007, 09:03 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
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It's not kicker in the first place it's gnome panel.
I will have to see when I get into gnome. But, for me gnome shows only the programmes running on the active workspace.
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Mehul, thanks for letting me know its not the kicker, but the panel  What's a kicker then? Like I mentioned before, the panel is cluttered on opensuse 10.2, but I didn't find it that way on Fedora. Do let me know when you try out
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
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25-03-2007, 10:38 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Have you tried right-clicking on your gnome panel? There should be an option that would be like "show windows from all workspaces" and "show windows from current workspaces"...something around those terms. I remember there is such an option. I saw it when I tried Ubuntu.
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25-03-2007, 11:13 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Workspaces just eases ur work. U can also explore virtual terminals, another functionality of linux!
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
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Have you tried right-clicking on your gnome panel? There should be an option that would be like "show windows from all workspaces" and "show windows from current workspaces"...something around those terms. I remember there is such an option. I saw it when I tried Ubuntu.
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No. I don't get that option. My panel is still cluttered with loads of open apps
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30-03-2007, 02:09 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
well.. In open susd 10.2 it shows only the current workspace windows by default..
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30-03-2007, 06:48 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Off topic : but relevant
hey guys can u tell me whether KDE has 3D desktop....cuz im getting that option...
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30-03-2007, 10:18 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Yes dursleyin, KDE does have a 3D Desktop.
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31-03-2007, 12:19 AM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
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No. I don't get that option. My panel is still cluttered with loads of open apps |
Right click on your panel and take a screenshot. Post it somewhere..I want to see what options you get. I somehow remember that there used to be such an option in GNOME.
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31-03-2007, 12:34 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
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Yes dursleyin, KDE does have a 3D Desktop.
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How to enable it ?
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31-03-2007, 05:44 PM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
I don't see desktop switcher applet on that panel. Do you have multiple desktop enabled on your system? Not the one that is given by Beryl...but the one given by GNOME.
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01-04-2007, 09:21 AM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Its not appearing in the list! Dunno what is wrong with my distro. This is my recent fresh install.
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
May be you have a corrupt gnome-applets install. Try uninstalling and reinstalling just this one package...then retry adding desktop switchee applet. I am not a GNOME user so really can't help you much here.
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Is it possible to reinstall only the gnome-applet? Well, i'll give it a shot. I hope it works....
Ok, here's a 'strange' thing happening. Managed to reinstall the gnome-applet. Yes, it was corrupt. Dunno why and how What might be the reason? After that, the desktop switcher is enabled .So, please check the screenshot If I click on the Workspace 2 box, I lose the panel completely. I can just see the desktop. So, where am I going wrong? Configuring?
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04-04-2007, 12:22 AM
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
f you are using Beryl, then open beryl-settings, go to Desktop --> Desktop Cube and then check the option that says "Stick Sticky windows to screen". Then see if you have panel on your second desktop.
P.S. GNOME seems to be more confusing than being easier 
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
No, I don't use Beryl. It crashes the second it starts. I'm using only Compiz right now. A hard core KDE user has shifted to GNOME because of Compiz If it wasn't for that, I would have stuck with KDE. Till now, GNOME has taught me a lot of things  Any solutions on GNOME, anyone?
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Well beryl crashes on my kde tooo. But it runs very smoothly on gnome.
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
Not much luck with GNOME either It works sometimes, but most of the times, it crashes
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increase the size of ur panels by right clicking getting properties.it helps.also use top and bottom panels,that means all the apps and applets on top of the panel(by default in GNOME) and bottom panel for open windows.
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Re: What is the use of workspaces?
That would be one panel too many!
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