Multiple Desktops

Rather than crowd your work on one screen, you can use virtual desktops, which extend your workspace to multiple desktop areas. Say you have your browser open on one desktop; if you want to use a word processor and e-mail program without crowding everything together, you can have each application run on its own desktop.

For example, by using GNOME and the Enlightenment window manager (which literally manages how your windows are displayed), you can move a window from one desktop to another by clicking on the application's title bar and "dragging" the application beyond the left, right, top or bottom border of your screen.

Another way to move an application to another desktop, if your window manager supports the feature, is to select the desktop by right-clicking a window's title bar (see Figure 2-8 for an example, using Enlightenment).

By default, four desktops are available to you. However, using the configuration utility for your window manager, you can modify that number. To run Enlightenment's configuration program, middle-click on your desktop (or click your right and left mouse buttons simultaneously), and select Enlightenment Configuration. Go to the entry called Desktops to increase or decrease the number of available desktops.

The Desk Guide (see Figure 2-9) is a GNOME utility which allows you to switch desktops (or workspaces) by clicking on the corresponding desktop.

You can use the GNOME Desktop Guide, the collection of "panes" on the Panel, to see where running applications are located on your desktops -- they will appear as small, raised squares inside a desktop pane.

	Part of the Pager
	The Desktop Guide is one part of the GNOME Pager; the other part of the Pager is the Tasklist. You can add new Tasklists, Pagers, or Desk Guides by right-clicking on the Panel and moving your cursor to Add applet => Utility and selecting the applets from the menu.