name workspaces in ubuntu/unity OR rename activitiesi n KDE

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Matt Price wrote:

> Hey Folks,
>
> I'm being driven mildly insane by the attempt to make proper use of
> desktops in Ubuntu (unity) or activities in Kubuntu (KDE). I'm urnning
> an up-to-date install of 12.04 (Precise).
>
> what I want is to have my tasks oraganized in desktops or activities
> that i can identify by name. Each task should contain the windows I
> need for the task at hand and no others -- so, in my "Writing" task I
> want two Libreoffice windows open, one firefox window with a ocuple of
> research tabs, and a few windows from acroread or evince.  In my
> "Coding" window I'll have emacs and another firefox window with a
> different set of tabs; and in "Procrastination and Busywork" I'll have
> thunderbird running, along witha third firefox window with newspapers
> & facebook & whatever.  Here's what's driving me mad:
>
> - Unity does not seem to allow me to name my Desktops.  Not such a big
> deal, but in the absence of names I can't seem to keep track of what
> windows are where.  And also, totally frustrating, there's no way to
> save my window setup in case I need to logout or reboot -- whcih seems
> to happen more now thatn it used to.  Also unity can be very
> frustrating to deal with, though I've started to get used to it after
> about 8 months...

    Try Windowmaker.


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