My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3192

Hello World,

Snit

I am at workplace now, running Windows on a corporate issue PeeCee, hence I have exactly One desktop. I am not pleased with this. Multiple desktops are Good. They enable you to task switch. They were born out of the notion prevalent with programmers1 that their program is the only one you'll ever need, and hence, they are completely justified in taking over your whole screen2.

You may be working on one thing, when the phone goes. Currently, I have to hide everything, open the programs relevant to the phone calls, do whatever needs doing, then unhide all the windows I was working on before the phone call.

With multiple desktops, I can start with a fresh screen, and return to what I was working on before. Instantly.

Generally, my layout at home is:

Screen 1: To the left a few chat sessions, to the right a web browser. I keep the chat sessions on the left so I can see them move whenever somebody says something. Am therefore most peeved with ChatZilla as it keeps the user list on the left.

Screen 2: News client, and perhaps another web browser to follow those links.

Screen 3: remote logins to a variety of boxen and-or a number of file folders.

Screen 4-10: Whatever else presents itself.

I don't think that is an unusually high number of tasks. What is the currently going definition of "Windows Power User"? Someone who uses Outlook Express *and* any other program?

Cheers, Menno

1 And web designers, mustn't forget them! 2 ObRant: Bunch of chickeny gits - thinking that their frikkin' corporate logo is an appropriate use of your screen real estate, not to mention their pictorial representation of "Search", i.e. either a pair of binoculars or a magnifying glbutt, neither of which objects I would use to search for a thing. Yes, a picture *is* worth a thousand words, none of them printable.