Saturday, December 24th, 2005, 4:47 pm
Virtual Desktops & Dual-Head
Filed under: On desktop 2 I have the E-mail client and some music application (either XMMS or the excellent AmaroK). On desktop 3 I have some academic papers of interest, one occupying each monitor. Desktop 4 is where programming takes place, or even remote connections are established that are research-oriented.
One issue that I came across was desktop state restoration. Restoring all programs and re-positioning them to suit personal conventions seems a very time-consuming job. Fortunately, I never switch off the workstations, let alone reboot them. I rely on power saving modes and standby in particular. Locking is rarely a must, but I use xlock for short periods of absence and KDE’s wrappers to locking if I expect to be away for many hours.
Several months back, I set up some automated screen-grabbing scripts. I have some up-to-the-minute (well, 10 minutes) screenshots in the Introduction section. Sadly, it shows just one virtual desktop at any one time (the active one). It is not (trivially) possible to automatically capture all 4 or stitch them together on the fly. I believe this is the case because I researched on the matter and even asked in the Linux newsgroups.
Related item: revolving virtual desktops in space
