[ubuntu users] How to get more work spaces--Question 1

[James Michael Fultz]

* Ted Hilts <thilts at mcsnet.ca> [2009-09-29 21:57 -0600]:
>James Michael Fultz wrote: 
[...]
>> The following command works here on 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope using 
>> Compiz: 
>> 
>> $ gconftool-2 -t int -s /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/hsize 7 
>> 
>> Presumably, the following would apply if Metacity is used as the 
>> window manager: 
>> 
>> $ gconftool-2 -t int -s /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 7 
>> 
>[...] You seem to be saying that somehow gconftool-2 can be 
>somehow linked to a web site having a special windows manager 
>and that combination can be directly used to define the number 
>of work spaces on my machine.  If I understand you  then this is 
>very new way of doing things--for me anyway. 
> 
>Thanks very much for taking the time to give me these examples. 

gconftool-2 interfaces to the local GConf daemon which manages 
the local GConf database.  For each user, that user's settings 
are stored in under the directory '~/.gconf'.  The pathnames used 
in the gconftool-2 examples I provided are GConf's way of 
referencing keys stored in the database -- not literal paths on a 
filesystem of Web store.  So, no, no Web site is involved.  This 
is (probably better) explained in the manual for gconftool-2.  
Hope that clears up any misunderstandings.