> 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?
>
> I've never found any use for running a program with a window larger
> than my screen size, I rarely (but very occasionally) would like to
> drag a window from one place to another.
>
> So for me Pages will work *slightly* better than Desktops except that
> they don't have names.
>
> In many ways it seems a rather artificial distinction that causes some
> confusion and doesn't offer much useful, but maybe I'm not seeing
> something obvious.
>
> (Yes, I know a Page is a 'screens worth' of a Desktop, but I don't see
> what use that is to me)
I use both -- typically 4 pages on each of 4 desktops (though both are
configurable easily via AnotherLevelUp preferences). I typically have ~6 or so
windows open on each desktop at any time, using ~2 or 3 pages of each.
Why?
* FvwmTaskBar can be set to show only windows on the current desktop,
(and iconised ones), which is less cluttered if you organise your
desktops into `task' activities.
* I use have it so that each desktop is associated with a directory of
my filestore, so everything run from the menus there already has that
directory as CWD. (I could say how this is done if you would like.)
* Pages are used as more desk space within each `task', e.g. I might
have a web browser open on the Java API in the page next to the one I
am writing code in: I can just slide between the two with either the
mouse or shortcuts.
> Chris Green
Thanks, John
