Rather than crowd your work on one screen, you can use
virtual desktops, which extend your workspace to
multiple desktop areas. Say you have your browser open on
one desktop; if you want to use a word processor and e-mail program
without crowding everything together, you can have each application run
on its own desktop.
For example, using GNOME and the
sawfish window
manager (which literally manages how
your windows are displayed), you can move a window from one desktop to
another by clicking on the application's title bar and "dragging" the
application beyond the left, right, top or bottom border of your
screen.
By default, four desktops are available to you. However, using the
configuration utility for your window manager, you can modify that
number. To run Enlightenment's configuration
program, middle-click on your desktop (or click your right and left
mouse buttons simultaneously), and select
. Go to the entry called
to increase or decrease the number
of available desktops.
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.
You can use the GNOME Desktop Guide, the
collection of "panes" on the , to see where
running applications are located on your desktops -- they will appear as
small, raised squares inside a desktop pane.
 | Part of the Pager |
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| | The Desktop 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
and moving your cursor to => and
selecting the applets from the menu.
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