friendship ended with workspaces/virtual-deskltops, now tags are my best friend
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At work I tend to have like 3 workspaces just for stuff I need to be doing. Different projects. My second monitor tends to be reserved for the documentation etc that I need for that project. Then there are multiple workspaces with terminals for ssh, screenshares, and other terminal hackeroni. And one for messages etc.
I prefer to use i3 or away for this but unfortunately not every workplace lets you have that
And if it's long standing then throw stuff from 4 on 10.
I usea a tiling wm(sway) so workspaces are part of my workflow. 1: browsers 2: terminals 3: terminals(part 2) 4: chats(XMPP, LXMF, email...) 5: IDE(helix) 6: games(supertuxkart) 7: keepassxc 8: Tor browser 9: misc 0: music
i use wm so workspaces. I have them as:
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WEB: to spawn all web browsers. Clicking a link in a terminal or a pdf will open a tab or a new browser here.
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TERM: to spawn all terminal applications and processes: Htop, ssh, vim windows to edit stuff...etc.
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CODE: for GUI code editors like CodeBlocks, VSCode, Emacs. Yes I do use Vim but I prefer the full functions from these.
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FILE: any file managers, e.g. pcmanfm, thunar, ranger...etc. I mostly use only one (pcmanfm) and use this workspace when I need to view complicate folder structures.
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PDF: I read a lot of papers so usually qpdfview owns this worlspace. I used to have Mendeley here as well.
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MEDIA: so any VLC, mplayer will spawn here
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TODO: usually some notes I put down on a text editor will show here.
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OTHER: the rest.
I typically keep three virtual desktops, one "main" one with what I'm working on, a second one with communications, like email and slack and whatnot, and another as basically blank space to put stuff that I need open but doesn't have anywhere to go.
not sure if a virtual desktop is the same thing as workspaces in Gnome, but what I do is I only really open one window in one workspace. The first window I open since system startup goes into the first workspace, etc. Usually the first one is the browser (Librewolf).
The thing I'm supposed to be doing is on workspace 3...
If you swap one and four, That's how I use the monitors on my desktop
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