On 21 Mar 2014, at 7:13 pm, Stephen Loosley <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Discovering Two Screens Aren't Better Than One" > (MARCH 19, 2014. Farhad Manjoo, a tech columnist for The New York Times, > turned off a monitor at his home in California. He said ? > his return to a > single display was punishingly cramped at first, but soon helped him improve > his focus on work.) I have always had one screen, when everyone around me was clamouring for two. Because I used to use a Sun workstation I was quite familiar with the Virtual Desktop as in CDE or on Linux as “FVWM”. The latter was a window manager that put a little rectangle in the top left corner divided into 6 or more panes. You could start an app in one pane then click on the next one and start something else, so you could have 20 windows open across 6 or more virtual desktop. Now I am on a Mac, I do the same thing, but I do not use “Spaces” or whatever it is called. Instead I use a little tool called “Space.app” that puts the little box on the screen and gives me the virtual desktop effect the same. I do not like the Apple version as it is intrusive and I have developed a workflow over nearly 20 years around having that familiar little box in the top left corner. Even if I could have 2 monitors I don’t want them. The guy that originally developed space.app stopped working on it several years ago, but I got hold of the source and built my own 64 bit version of it for Mavericks. I do not know of many apps in such continuous use for such a length of time. Space.app is especially useful on a laptop as it multiplies your screen space x6+, But I use my on a desktop monitor. rachel — Rachel Polanskis Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia [email protected] IT consulting, security, programming The more an answer costs, the more respect it carries. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
