[Gllug] Linux on Desktop

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On 1 Feb 2007, Jasper Steenkamp outgrape:
> Another plus for the basic Linux desktop is having multiple virtual desktops.
> (not sure if this has already been said)

This is trivially doable with tiny free software tools in Windows as
well.

> At some point I have used 7 desktops, where browser/mail stuff was on
> the first desktop, vim-perl on the second, database terminals on the
> third one etc.

My standard configuration has 3x6 windows; at work I have a VNC session
containing a separate virtual desktop manager (fvwm2) with switching
controlled by separate keybindings. Oddly other people seem to find
this confusing. I can't imagine why.

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