![]() Now, if you have several monitors, you can tweak it to Workspaces on all displays, making your workspace available to all the monitors, just like a single big monitor. Say, for example, use your virtual desktops on the primary monitor for various editing tasks while using the external monitor for presentation purposes. The other monitors can stick to any dedicated use-case you want (or assume it as a single workspace). This means your virtual desktops are confined to your primary monitor. The default setting for this is workspace on Primary display only. This is one of the most essential features for those with several monitors who want to increase productivity. Fixed workspaces (Click to expand the image) Workspace Settings for Multi-Monitor Setup To proceed with this, head to the Multitasking tab, enable fixed workspaces, and change the number to your liking. So, whenever you think you need another workspace, you have to come back to this setting and change the number of workspaces. Note that this will remove the automatic appending of workspaces. However, you can change it to a fixed number of workspaces if you need. ![]() Fixed Number of WorkspacesĪs mentioned, Ubuntu uses dynamic workspaces by default. This is very useful if you are using the mouse frequently. You can now hover on the top left corner to get the overview of workspaces. Enable Hot Corner (Click to expand image) And, toggle the Hot Corner option, as shown in the screenshot below. To enable it, open settings and go to the Multitasking tab. Enabling the Hot Corner Featureīy default, the hot corner feature is disabled in Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu GNOME here, and the same steps should work on almost all GNOME-based Linux distributions. There are several ways you can tweak the default workspace behavior. While the default settings are more than enough for most users, sometimes, you may want to configure them to suit your needs. You can use the three-finger left/right swipe on laptop touchpads to switch between the workspaces. In addition, if you press the super key twice or click the bottom left Applications button, you will get an overview of workspaces along with the application grid as shown below: Application Grid with Workspace Overview In other words, a new workspace will be appended when you move a window to the last workspace.Īnd if you remove all the windows from any of the extra workspaces, those workspaces will be automatically closed. Press the Super key to get the Workspace Overviewīy default, the workspaces are dynamically allocated and start at 2. You can also access the workspaces using the top Activities button. You get an overview of the two workspaces (and anything in it). Whether you use Ubuntu or any other distribution with GNOME, you can access the workspace overview by pressing the Super key. ![]() With them, you get a horizontal alignment of workspaces and impressive touchpad gesture support for the Wayland display server. The latest releases of Ubuntu use GNOME 40 and above. Modern desktop environments provide several ways to organize your virtual desktops. ![]() This way, your desktop workspace stays organized, and you can quickly access the desired window/app. Instead of cluttering all the windows in one screen, you can have multiple windows in different workspaces. Workspaces are virtual desktops that allow you to juggle and organize a collection of application windows. ![]()
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