Instead of crowding your work on to one screen, you can use virtual
desktops, which extend your workspace to multiple desktop areas. For
example, you may have your browser open on one desktop. If you want to
use a word processor and email program without having them all be on top
of each other, you can have each application run on its own desktop.
By default, four desktops are available to you. However, using the
configuration utility for your window manager, you can modify that
number. To run sawfish's configuration
program, middle-click on your desktop (or click your right and left
mouse buttons simultaneously), and select
. Go to the entry called
Workspaces to increase or decrease the number
of available desktops. You can also go to
=> => => =>
.
In the Workspaces field, use the arrows or enter a
number manually to determine the number of workspaces. You can name the
Workspaces by clicking on Insert and typing a
name in the pop-up box that appears.
The numbers in the Columns and
Rows fields are multiplied by the number in the
Workspaces field, increasing your number of
workspaces, if you choose, and determining the appearance of your Desk
Guide. Enter different numbers in these fields and click on
Try. Watch the display in the Desk Guide on
your panel change as you do this.
You can move a window from one desktop to another by clicking on the
title bar and dragging it over any border of your current screen, or by
clicking on the top left corner of any open application and selecting
Send Window To from the menu that appears.
The Desk Guide (see Figure 2-10) is a GNOME
utility which allows you to switch desktops (or workspaces) by clicking
on the corresponding desktop.
 | Parts of the Pager |
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| | The Desk Guide is one part of the GNOME
Pager; the other part of the
Pager is the Tasklist. You can add new
Tasklists, Pagers, or Desk Guides by
right-clicking on the panel and moving your cursor to => and selecting the
applets from the menu.
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