[NTLUG:Discuss] virtual desktops question

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:31 -0600, Fred James wrote:
> I have a question on virtual desktops, or "Workspace Switcher" as it 
> seems to be tagged in Gnome.
> 
> When I switch from one workspace to another (4 is the limit?),

with Fedora Core 3, ( think it's Gnome 2.8 ) you can right click 
on the desktop widget and select the number of desktops you want
from the 'preferences' option.  You can select the number, rows, 
and assign then names. I was just recently that the desktop would 
remember the names you assigned. It was broke for a while. You could 
assign the name, but as soon as you rebooted and restarted, you 
lost the names. 


>  and open 
> different network connections on each, who keep track of the 
> routing/addressing?  Would my external switch/router know or care about 
> any of this?  How much chance for OS, Gnome, or application, confusion 
> is there (for example: hanging, or flakiness)?  Thank you in advance for 
> any help you may be able to offer.

huh... it's not multiple machines with multiple routes... it virtual 
GUI screens... I have my mail on one, web on another, terminals on a 3rd
and my 4th one is for my news reader. The fact that I have 3 nic cards 
in my machine, am running a couple of VPN connections to different
servers, have my routing set up so that 172.x.x.x goes over one tunnel 
and 192.168.1.x goes to another tunnel and 10.3.x.x goes to a 3rd
tunnel doesn't affect the GUI desktop. If I am on ANY screen and 
select an application that goes to 172.x.x.x, it's going to go to 
the tunnel that my routing specifies... the virtual desktop that 
it started on, has nothing to do with the routing. 

The Virtual Desktop stuff is just so you can organize multiple 
applications if you run several at once and don't want the windows
overlapping or getting in the way.  I run all of my apps fully 
expanded and just switch between them with the desktop switcher. 


> 
> MDK 9.1, Gnome 2.2, Workspace Switcher 2.2.0.1

Besides being old.... they should work. If you give the 
desktops names, not sure if they will be remembered with 
that version of the software. 

jack 


> Regards
> Fred James
> 
> PS:  I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.10 installed, and no matter which 
> workspace I am in, when I open it, it opens in the first workspace
> 



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