[gentoo-user] Re: dual monitors and dual desktops

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2012-10-25, mindrunner <kernel@ccube.de> wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 07:40 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> So I actually have a total of 12 virtual desktops (3 sets of 4).
>
> Searching the terminal window opened 6 hours ago on one of the 12
> virutal desktops sounds like fun :D


It's not as bad as it sounds. I rarely use more than 2 virtual
desktops, and depending on what I'm doing, there's an informal
"system": when doing development the left monitor is for looking at
PDF datasheets, center monitor is for edit/build source files, right
hand monitor is for "running" the program.

When I get interrupted by a phone call or visitor and need to do
someting else temporarily, I flip one or more of the screens to a
different virtual desktop.

It's sort of like a CPU for which you have a reguster usage convention
and a stack to push "in-use" registers onto when you get interrupted
or have to switch contexts.

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