Sun Lab Survival Guide
(formerly "Solaris Survival Guide" by Mike Boldin, Niagara College, 2000-2005)
(formerly "Solaris Survival Guide" by Mike Boldin, Niagara College, 2000-2005)
Version 1.2
Last modified on 2011/09/07 03:22:22 by
mboldin
The four workspaces (4 by default, you can change the number) allow you to open many windows without cluttering up the screen and having to use Alt-Tab to switch between many windows.
For example, if you open up the "Performance Meter" application (to show how "busy" your machine is) ...
... then right-click on the top-left icon of the window to get a pop-up context menu, you can choose "Put on all workspaces" ...
... then the window, in this case, the Performance Meter, will occupy all four workspaces, as you can see below:
When a window exists in such an arrangement, its context menu changes slightly, so that you can reassign the window to a single workspace, or to move it to other workspaces:
