John Culleton wrote: >I have four switchable desktops, each one measuring 1280 x 1024. I >usually run a 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 viewport into the current >desktop and ramble around on the larger desktop with the mouse.??? >I can switch between desktops with one detent rotation of the mouse >wheel on empty space.
I'm sure that works very well for you, but it is very different from my workspace. Over the years, I have gradually worked my way up to a larger and larger desktop and each step has been better than the last. I currently work with 1920x1200.* For those times when my main monitor is not big enough, I run a second monitor that has also grown over the years. It is currently at 1900x1440. Running that second monitor all the time has always felt too extravagant, so it only comes on a few times a month. I doubt that I fully understand what you mean by a "800 x 600 viewport into the current desktop," but I think I get the basic idea. I also doubt that I would be at all happy rambling around such a small window on the desktop. I suspect that this would be similar to zooming in on my current desktop and then moving around with the mouse. I occasionally do that for fine work or to read especially small print. I have even considered using that as my main desktop, but never seriously. As I said before, I like having everything available on a large desktop. Torn?ci L?szl? wrote: >One annoying thing though: every time I start >Scribus, all the small windows are piled up on >the left monitor, I need to drag them to the >right before I start working. That would be annoying, probably enough so that I would find a different way to arrange things. I have not yet tried this on my system, so I don't know how it would work. John *Ironically, my current desktop is a step down from the last, which was 1920x1440. I made this step because I could get it in a laptop and because it appears that if I ever make the leap to an LCD monitor, it will probably be running at 1920x1200. For environmental reasons I really like using the laptop as my main machine; the loss of 240 pixels is a small price to pay to save 300 KWHr a year.
