[linux-audio-user] [OT] Switching workspaces or ping-ponging screens?

[wes schreiner]

Christian Frisson wrote:

>Heyall,
>
>I'm up to throw my little and only 15" CRT screen in the attic to replace it by
>a more space-friendly and hum-bucking 17" LCD screen. I heard that running a
>dual-screen workstation is very fashionable for musicians (or artists): the
>sequencer on the first and the mixer on the second for example. Thus I was
>wondering whether I should take advantage of the opportunity and buy two of them
>at the same
>time, from the same brand, same model, same series... to avoid being
>disoriented. But doesn't Linux enable us to switch virtual workspaces with a
>single key combination?
>  
>

It's not Linux, it's your window manager.  Most window managers do allow 
the use of a single (well, usually a multi-key) keypress to switch 
workspaces.  There's always a menu option too, and then some have little 
"pager" applets.

>So what's better: flicking keys or ping-ponging eyes? Wrists RSI's or strabism?
>  
>

Why not have both?  Here I have two 17" monitors running at 1280x1024.  
With Openbox as my window manager, a flick of the mouse wheel on the 
background switches between workspaces, and that's both monitors at 
once.  It is very nice and it takes only a little bit to get used to 
it.  Using multiple workspaces is a good first step, but when you 
combine that with dual monitors you can really spread things out.  It 
all depends on your style of working, but if you find that you are 
spending a lot of time shuffling windows around you will like dual monitors.

wes