On Friday 12 August 2016 00:22:50 Rodary Jacques wrote: > As far as I remember, it has nothing to do with the OS, nor with the > browser or the desktop manager but with the windows manager. In 1999 > (perhaps 2000) when Gnome was to be loaded carefully one package at a time, > NextStep or Nautilus windows manager (I can't remember which, perhaps a > third one) introduced fixed workspaces, as many as 64 possible ( it was > really great to open 64 pictures in GIMP), and (later?) the possibility to > choose a workspace for a given application, e.g workspace 2 for the default > browser, 3 for the mail, etc... In 2006 (perhaps before) this was > introduced in MacOs under the name of Spaces, also fixed. Then, in MacOS > and Linux (which was first?) worspaces became dynamic, i.e created as > needed, and then couldn't be assigned to a given application; it seems > nevertheless that an application tries to go to its later place.
In general, one can certainly assign to a given desktop, and as many separate windows on that desktop as one wishes. But it does depend on the OS and DE/Window Manager. You may be right that it depends primarily on which Window Manager is being used by the OS/DE. > Happily enough, I never tried Windows (besides me, a poster says "This > is > an air conditioned room, don't open Windows®". :-)) Nor I Windows 10 - but I have had to read some of its claims!! Great poster!!! Lisi
