Ask Slashdot: How Do You Organize Your Virtual Desktops?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 18, 2015 @09:25AM from the secret-identity-on-desktop-3 dept.

hyphenistic writes: As a programmer I find myself switching between multiple projects on a daily basis. Virtual desktops have been a big help in grouping my related programs together. I try to have a virtual desktop open for each project I'm working on. Although I've used Linux in the past my currently preferred desktop OS is Windows 10. For the most part I have found the new virtual desktops to be easy to use. My primary issue (regardless of OS) is that I really don't want my virtual desktops to interact with each other. In the past I have accomplished this with a separate login for each project but that brings the hassle of managing multiple sets of OS and application preferences. Can someone suggest a better method for organizing my virtual desktops?

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Turn Them Off by rainmaestro · 2015-09-18 09:56 · Score: 2, Troll

First thing I do on any fresh install of Linux is to turn off virtual desktops. My experience has been that if I've got so much going on at once that it makes a single desktop instance seem too cluttered, that's a sign that I need to reconsider how I handle my time.
Having to close and reopen tools forces you to cut down on context switching. At least for me, that helps productivity.