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Understanding Virtual Workspaces

Many of the window management techniques discussed so far likely seem familiar to users of Windows and Mac OS. However, Linux desktops typically offer one function with which users of other operating systems are generally less familiar.

Virtual workspaces give you a number of independent workspaces that all share your computer at the same time. Each virtual workspace is a complete Linux desktop all its own, with its own sense of desktop space, its own set of open applications, its own desktop wallpaper, and so on. When you start an application on a Linux desktop, the window for the application you've started appears in the currently active virtual workspace. If you then switch to another virtual workspace, that ...