On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]>wrote:

> Le samedi 14 mai 2011 à 10:51 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit :
> > Usually I work on dual 24" monitors so I'll have maybe 2 virtual
> > windows open.  But I was working on a laptop all this week and with
> > the 15" screen I've had about 9 workspaces going.
> >
> >
> > Moving between them I find is slowing me down in Gnome 3.
> >
> >
> > One thing slowing me down is when I need to go from 1 to 9.
> In System Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts->Navigation, you can set
> keybindings to move to workspaces. Use something involving numbers, and
> you'll be able to get directly to the workspace you want.
>
> That's probably the best solution, since people using many workspaces
> are relatively rare, and are able to customize their keybindings. Most
> users are likely to use only a few of them (I think, but of course I've
> no data on that).
>
>
9 is a lot of desktops!  I use a max of 6 I believe.  I never used the grid
mode because it started getting complicated on where all my windows was.  So
then I send up panning around looking for whatever window I wanted.
Honestly, I don't know if there is a particularly efficient way to deal with
9 workspaces that doesn't involve putting numbers or some other special
function to deal with your particular workflow.

sri
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