On Mon, Jul 01, 2013, steve harley wrote: > on 2013-07-01 13:06 Aahz Maruch wrote >> >>For starters, OSX still doesn't have anything remotely like true >>virtual desktops (I strongly prefer multiple desktops with a few >>windows in each, often with the same app -- especially terminal >>windows -- in multiple desktops, and OSX just doesn't support that). > > you may have something very specific in mind, but since you > generalized to "anything remotely like", it sounds like you may not > have looked over the should of the right OS X users; OS X supports up > to 16 desktops and apps can be set to assigned to specific desktops, > or to remain active in all desktops; for example i launch my text > editor and it remembers the 12 windows i had open in my dev desktop, > and my terminal app opens there too; Aperture lives on another > desktop, VNC session to home server on another (and i can drag one > terminal window to the VNC desktop as needed, etc.)
Well, I do have something very specific in mind. ;-) I'm highly keyboard-focused, and I have yet to figure out how to easily switch between multiple terminal windows spread across multiple virtual desktops. (E.g. five desktops each with three terminal windows.) Admittedly, I haven't tried 10.7/10.8 to see whether they've fixed my problems. On Linux, I use one key combo to change virtual desktops (I assign each virtual desktop an individual key combo so I can switch directly to it) and then ALT-TAB to switch between windows only in that virtual desktop. Does OSX have anything similar? -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
