[LINK] One Screen or Two?

[Rachel Polanskis]

On 21 Mar 2014, at 7:13 pm, Stephen Loosley <stephen at melbpc.org.au> wrote:


> "Discovering Two Screens Aren't Better Than One"

> (MARCH 19, 2014. Farhad Manjoo, a tech columnist for The New York Times, turned off a monitor at his home in California. He said ? > his return to a single display was punishingly cramped at first, but soon helped him improve his focus on work.)


I have always had one screen, when everyone around me was clamouring for two. Because I used to use a Sun workstation 
I was quite familiar with the Virtual Desktop as in CDE or on Linux as “FVWM”.  The latter was a window manager that put a little 
rectangle in the top left corner divided into 6 or more panes.  You could start an app in one pane then click on the next 
one and start something else, so you could have 20 windows open across 6 or more virtual desktop. 

Now I am on a Mac, I do the same thing, but I do not use “Spaces” or whatever it is called. Instead I use a little tool
called “Space.app” that puts the little box on the screen and gives me the virtual desktop effect the same.  I do not 
like the Apple version as it is intrusive and I have developed a workflow over nearly 20 years around having that familiar 
little box in the top left corner.  Even if I could have 2 monitors I don’t want them.  The guy that originally developed
space.app stopped working on it several years ago, but I got hold of the source and built my own 64 bit version of it for Mavericks.  

I do not know of many apps in such continuous use for such a length of time.  Space.app is especially useful on a laptop
as it multiplies your screen space x6+, But I use my on a desktop monitor.  



rachel

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