On Thu, 22 May 2008, Chris G wrote:
I've never quite made my mind up whether to use several Desktops or
several Pages on one desktop, what are the reasons (if any) for choosing
one or the other?
Mah, I originally developed my arrangement (when I moved into fvwm from a
single desktop single page motif :-)) with the idea to have :
- one desktop with 4 pages for "work"
- another desktop for "network". Originally it had one page for the
browser, one page for e-mail, another page for a VNC connection to
another machine, and a spare page. Now the VNC is gone and I end up
using the two spare as extra work areas (sometime I put pdf documents
in the one next to the e-mail page)
I've never found any use for running a program with a window larger
than my screen size,
No, although sometimes I'd like to have two physical screens :-)
I rarely (but very occasionally) would like to drag a window from one
place to another.
Personally I like the little pager in the corner to swap pages/desktops,
and occasionally to drag windows. I hate KDE-type control panels, so I
have just the pager and a clock, and do all the rest via root menus.
I defined accelerator keys to move across pages/ desktops and ended in not
using them at all. I even forgot what they are (the rare case I needed is
doing presentations with a full screen pdf or ppt (*) on one page and a
web browser on another).
(*) prefer a latex generated "beamer" pdf :-)
I define window menus to move a window to a target desktop and page and
use them very seldom (may be because I always forget whether my 2x2 pages
are numbered [1,2][3,4] or [1,3][2,4] :-))
In general when I need to move a window from a page/desk to another, I end
up as follows : use the window menu to make it sticky, change page/desk
and make it unsticky. Or leave it sticky if I need to go to and fro many
times.
I guess the good of fvmw is that allows many different working styles to
be achieved easily and in a light way.
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