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Why Virtual Desktops and How they Compare to Virtual Activities
No matter what OS you use, virtual desktops, workspaces, and activities allow us to better separate and group our activities more logically together. If you dislike clutter, and want better productivity and organisation, then this video is worth watching if you have not yet explored this before.
Although this video focuses on general Linux and KDE users, I do cover why someone would want to use virtual desktops or workspaces. As these features exist too on Windows and macOS, this may be of interest to those users, and also to compare with how Linux does it.
This is not a step-by-step how-to-do-it video, as my videos focus more around an overview of why you may want to use something, and what it can do for you. If you like the concept of virtual workspaces, there are plenty of how-to videos to get started.
I specifically delve into the differences, too, between virtual desktops/workspaces and KDE activities.
CHAPTERS:
Intro 00:00
Why would you use them? 01:28
Virtual Desktops vs Activities 07:09
Activity filtered folders 16:50
Linking a file to an Activity 18:38
Activity Desktop Backgrounds 19:45
Virtual Desktop Backgrounds 21:03
Move open application to Virtual Desktop/Activity 21:59
Activity Faves in Menu 23:24
Filter tasks on taskbar per Desktop/Activity 24:38
Virtual Desktop Overview Hotkey 25:25
Stop/Suspend Activities 25:50
Advanced Usage 27:50
Outro 34:55
Bonus: Java apps tip 37:00
LINKS:
Vallpaper https://store.kde.org/p/1197828/ (download zip file, expand, and run the install.sh script)
Devil's Pie https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2017/205/Tutorial-Devilspie2 and https://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/
xdotool https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool
FOLLOW ME:
My daily tech blog at https://gadgeteer.co.za/blog
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Videos also replicated to Odysee at https://odysee.com/@GadgeteerZA
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No matter what OS you use, virtual desktops, workspaces, and activities allow us to better separate and group our activities more logically together. If you dislike clutter, and want better productivity and organisation, then this video is worth watching if you have not yet explored this before.
Although this video focuses on general Linux and KDE users, I do cover why someone would want to use virtual desktops or workspaces. As these features exist too on Windows and macOS, this may be of interest to those users, and also to compare with how Linux does it.
This is not a step-by-step how-to-do-it video, as my videos focus more around an overview of why you may want to use something, and what it can do for you. If you like the concept of virtual workspaces, there are plenty of how-to videos to get started.
I specifically delve into the differences, too, between virtual desktops/workspaces and KDE activities.
CHAPTERS:
Intro 00:00
Why would you use them? 01:28
Virtual Desktops vs Activities 07:09
Activity filtered folders 16:50
Linking a file to an Activity 18:38
Activity Desktop Backgrounds 19:45
Virtual Desktop Backgrounds 21:03
Move open application to Virtual Desktop/Activity 21:59
Activity Faves in Menu 23:24
Filter tasks on taskbar per Desktop/Activity 24:38
Virtual Desktop Overview Hotkey 25:25
Stop/Suspend Activities 25:50
Advanced Usage 27:50
Outro 34:55
Bonus: Java apps tip 37:00
LINKS:
Vallpaper https://store.kde.org/p/1197828/ (download zip file, expand, and run the install.sh script)
Devil's Pie https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2017/205/Tutorial-Devilspie2 and https://www.nongnu.org/devilspie2/
xdotool https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool
FOLLOW ME:
My daily tech blog at https://gadgeteer.co.za/blog
I post to all these social networks at https://gadgeteer.co.za/social-networks-i-post-to/
Videos also replicated to Odysee at https://odysee.com/@GadgeteerZA