A tool for multitasking in Ubuntu giving users several virtual desktops. Questions on setting up, turning off, customizing and working with workspaces are appropriate.
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Different wallpapers for each workspace in Ubuntu 13.04. Fusion extra's not available. Is there another fix? [duplicate]
I have been looking everywhere for an answer to my question. Tries just about every guide there is and went through all of the ubuntu forums.
This is not a duplicate question as the answers to the ...
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Terminal with multiple tabs doesn't stick to same screen when changing workspace
Minimal setup:
2 active workspaces (let's say top and bottom)
2 monitors on each. So 4 active windows.
top workspace, right monitor has Terminal with multiple tabs opened in full screen.
If I swap ...
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Multiple workspace in a single workspace
I was wondering if it is possible to have multiple workspaces in the same workspace.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/15537/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9237/
So if we have a big screen it ...
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shortcut to change workspace 13.04 [duplicate]
Until 13.04, I could change my workspace using ctrl+alt+arrow but since 13.04 it is impossible.
Is there a way to have a shortcut back?
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Eclipse loses focus after switching workspace
This might be related to this question.
I am Using Ubuntu 13.04 and Eclipse Juno Service Release 2.
I use Eclipse with some Eclipse's Views(panes) detached from the main window, because I have two ...
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Steam CS 1.6 Full screen mode screen shifts to workpace on dragging cursor
Has anyone faced this bug? In Ubuntu 12.04 when playing CS 1.6 from Steam in full screen mode if you drag the mouse cursor to right or bottom edge of the screen, it shifts to the respective workspace. ...
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Unable to add additional workspaces
I'm using gnome-shell and i'm unable to add additional workspaces. (It is always set to 1).
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
Has any one ...
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How do I open specific applications on specific workspaces in Lubuntu 13.04
I'm running Lubuntu 13,04 and have four workspaces set up. I want certain programs to open in a specfic workspace every time (like BOINC in workspace 4, an application for writing books in Workspace ...
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12.04. Launcher only shows application in current workspace although another instance is in a different workspace [closed]
On 12.04 with Workspace Switcher running, open two instances of an app, such as LibreOffice, in two different workspaces. In one of those workspaces, the Launcher will show an ">" next to the ...
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Workspace switch hot-keys not working in 13.04 (but expo does) [closed]
I recently upgraded from 12.04 to 13.04 (through 12.10). I have re-enabled workspaces in Appearances/Compiz, have a workspace-switcher launcher icon, and can expo with Super-s. The keyboard ...
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How to automatically open new applications within a NEW workspace
How can you make all applications, when opened, to automatically go in a new work space? As then there is no need to manually shuffle the stacked applications into new workspaces.
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Can I share workspace in eclipse in dualbooting system?
I am dualbooting Windows 8 and Ubuntu (each os has it's own partition, third partition is shared). Can I use a same workspace for Windows and Ubuntu version of eclipse? I am not doing any serious ...
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How do I install indicator-workspace?
I receive this error when I install the software.
Basically I want to know which space am I working on.
$sudo apt-get install indicator-workspaces
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency ...
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How to change desktop workspace? [duplicate]
In version 12.10 we could change spaces with Ctrl + Right/Left/Up/Down. But now?
Are there spaces here?
No information keeping pressed the super key.
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only one workspace after upgrade to 13.04
Title says it all.
Where can I add workspaces - looked into CompizConfig but I was not able to find a tab where I can specify the # of workspaces. I used to have 2X2 and that's what I'm looking for. ...
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See workspace name in taskbar [duplicate]
In 11.10 I could set preferences and apply names to the different workspaces. In 12.10 I installed CompizConfig Setttings Manager and enabled workspace naming, and I can get the names to show up when ...
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How to see the indicators only for apps in current workspace?
This worked fine in 11.10, but today I upgraded to 12.10 and I can't remember what I had to do to get this to work correctly. What I want is:
When in a workspace, the only icons in the taskbar should ...
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What is the hotkey for switching workspaces in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail? [duplicate]
Since I upgraded to Raring my workflow is hindered by abandoning the hotkeys for switching between workspaces. I used ctrl-alt-left/right/up/down a lot to switch between workspaces, and ...
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How to set each workspace to a separate monitor [duplicate]
I would like to set up the workspaces, so that the right one would be shown at the external
monitor, and the left one would be displayed on the laptop.
any help ??
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Remmina's full screen toolbar disappeared permminatly
I'm using remmina to connect to a few windows servers using RDP. I'm on a dual monitor system, and remmina is always full screen on one. I'm also using multiple Workspaces and switch between them.
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Is there a plugin to make unitys workspace and window management like gnomes?
I love the window and workspace management of gnome 3 (I don't know how it works in Gnome 2), but because of other advantages I'd rather use unity.
To be more specific: I want the windows of the ...
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Project applications auto opener positioner
I work with different tools that I need to open each time I open my laptop depending on the project I'm going to work on.
I'd like to have a way to automate the opening and positioning of all ...
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How can I configure the terminator terminal to always be on top?
I was able to set up the terminal to expand the whole monitor width but I would like for it to stay on the top of the screen even if I go to another workspace. If I hit F12 to drop it down when I am ...
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How to drag full screen window to the other workspace in unity
As the title
I can drag the window to the other workspace if the window is not full screen. I need restore the window first before I move it to the other workspace. Any shortcut?
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Fast, lightweight alternative to Compiz' Expo Plugin?
Are there any fast, lightweight alternatives to Compiz' Expo Plugin (which are compatible with / capable of running alongside Unity & Compiz) in standard Ubuntu?
I'm looking for sth that's almost ...
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How to make workspaces joined as extended desktop?
I'm working with very wide windows that are longer than my screen width.
When I'm in my office I use two monitors (laptop + external monitor) and such windows are spreaded over this extended ...
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How to not display icons on all four desktops ubuntu 12.04
Is it posible to have diferent icons on all four desktops, right now on all four desktops I have same folders, files, photos can I change it for example to have on second desktop just photos ? TNX
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Ubuntu woes on permissions [duplicate]
I ran sudo chmod -R myusername:myusername on I thought my /workspaces directory but it appears it did the command ran on the root directory, resulting in errors such as:
Could not update ICEauthority ...
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How to open and place a new window in another workspace automatically under Unity?
The basic idea is like tiling window manager with a fixed identical grid system.
I don't want windows piled up in a same desktop(workspace).
We can have a huge virtual desktop like setting up ...
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Can I use WinKey(Super)-1, WinKey-2 to select workspaces?
After setting it up, it used to work flawlessly before Unity. In 12.04, there is the little annoyance of showing (sometimes) the shortcut help and the numbers in the launcher. In 12.10 ... it stopped ...
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Alt + tab to switch between windows that are only in one screen
I am using GNOME-Classic and my window switcher is the Compiz Static Application Switcher. My problem is, when I press Alt+Tab, the switcher gives me the choice between windows of the whole workspace.
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Temperature soars when glxspheres is off-screen
My laptop Samsung RF511 is overheating. I noticed this problem while playing minecraft: my computer would suddenly shut down. I checked /var/log/kern.log and sure enough the system reported ...
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How to fix broken workspace switcher? [closed]
My workspace switcher gets broken after each upgrade.
It does not have the orange glow around active workspace. Also there is no shadow on the inactive ones (wallpaper does not get greyed out).
It ...
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How to avoid in the task bar other Workspace application icons?
What I want is that when I go to ones of my Workspaces, in the task bar where all current running app is showed, just appear app in the current Workspace. How can I do that?
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How do I disable the Workspace Switcher in the Cinnamon environment I use with 12.04LTS?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Cinnamon DE on my laptop.
Whenever I move the mouse cursor to the top left area of the screen, the workspace switcher comes up to offer multiple workspaces.
How do I ...
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Binding F1 key to workspace1 and so on
I've always bound the F{1..4} keys to quickly switch between workspaces.
Now the F1 shortcut is stuck to the help popup ("user & system settings"). I've tried different options, the best I could ...
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How to hide top menubar bar. Needed for the wine
Ubuntu unity use top bar like MAC. Nice. But, how to get the top bar hide?
Im using Wine or Playonlinux program. And im using virtual desktop in my screen. Big problem is a virtual desktop not fit ...
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How does one change window behaviors?
I'm fairly new to Ubuntu and have spent some time learning the OS. I absolutely love it, and have no idea how I managed to program in Mac OS X when this just feels so much more intuitive (although, ...
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How do I fix a problem with VLC that started after a window resize?
Today I had some windows open in workspace 1 and in the workspace below it I had VLC open. When I clicked on the VLC sidebar icon when I was in workspace 1 the window moved up to workspace 1, but it ...
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How can I disable windows of another workspace in the task bar?
When I switch to a different workspace, still I can see all the windows opened in the other workspaces in the task bar, so how can I get rid of this?
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When Compiz' EXPO plugin crashes (or causes .. to crash), can one tty-kill the EXPO plugin *only* (rather than taking down Unity/Compiz altogether)?
It seems to me that the EXPO plugin does, unfortunately (?), not constitute a separate process (?) which could be ended/killed if needed.
Is this correct?
And, if so, is there still a way to ...
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How to prevent an “always on top” application from usurping focus every time the workspace is switched
This is perhaps more suitable for Brainstorm as a feature request or a candidate for bug reporting, but, for now, I'll post it here:
When telling an application to be both
always on visible ...
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is it possible to open same application in different viewport
i want to have same application opened in different viewport and i dont want to keep shifting between viewports just because an application is already opened in other viewport.
i really new in Ubuntu ...
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How should I handle multiple monitors when I regularly connect and disconnect different monitors and projectors
I'm moving from a macbook pro (with MacOSX) to a lenovo T430 running ubuntu 12.10. I use the laptop for work, and work from home regularly. I have an external 30" monitor at home, an external 23" ...
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xterm creates window in active workspace always (How to put the window into background)
I have two workspaces: WS1 and WS2.
On WS1, the script below is running in a konsole:
for i in 1..1000; do
xterm -e someprogram argX &;
xterm -e someprogram argY
; done
When I switch ...
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How to prevent applications from separate workspaces all landing on a single workspace when docking back into docking-station?
Now that finally docking seems to be fully supported on my system, hurray!, I can address a relatively minor issue (or even a bug ?):
Normally, I have (all) four workspaces populated with my standard ...
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Desktop icons out of place when on multiple monitors?
I have two monitors set up, one is my laptop monitor and the other is an external display. The external display is on the right side of my laptop and levitated with a stand, so I set the display ...
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Lock widgets to desktop
I am running in the KDE plasma environment, and I have 9 workspaces. I would like to somehow set up a way to lock the widgets so that if I switch from one workspace to another, they will still be ...
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How can I make a program open on my current worspace, instead of transfering to another instance?
Since I updated my 10.04 to 12.04 version of Ubuntu I've been dealing with a terrible curse:
I used to have multiple workspaces, each with its own unique sets of same programs opened, and now, ...
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How to stop the fluent change / switch between work spaces?
I successfully got my laptop hooked up to my 22 inch monitor with the help of you in How do I setup dual monitors in XFCE?. It is pretty cool working on Xubuntu on a big monitor (in 1680 x 1050 px). ...
