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

[Andrew Farris]

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 13:43 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:19 -0700, David Fox wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Ted Hilts <thilts at mcsnet.ca> wrote:
> > > I want to increase the workspaces on Ubuntu vs 8.04 (from 7 to 10 work
> > > spaces -- 7 has been set as the limit) as well as Ubuntu vs 9.04 (from 2
> > Are you indicating that it is set to a hard limit of 7 and that it
> > can't be changed?
> 
> I am using GNOME with Compiz. I have Workspace Switcher 2.26.0 on my
> lower panel. Some experiments here have shown that (for me at least) the
> limit is 15 columns and 15 rows. It worked fine, though with the Compiz
> rotating cube seems to only show the topmost row, the displayed switcher
> windows are impossibly tiny, and the "Move to another workspace" title
> bar option gets a bit hairy :-)

Agreed, though I'm not using any compiz on my desktop. having 36
workspaces in 16 rows is dang-near impossible to find anything! I had to
add a window-list to my panel, just so I could find my original
workspace again :p

> > somewhere buried in Gnome and it's not possible to go above 7.
> 
> If there is a limit of 7 in that preferences dialogue, then it is
> different for the OP's system than mine, because the limit for me is 15.
> That indicates that it is probably a resources limitation - RAM or
> screen space or something.

Using straight gnome+metacity (no compiz) i have a row limit of 16, and
a limit of 36 workspaces, no matter which way i define it. All in all,
though, I've found that 6 workspaces is plenty for my needs.

-- 
Andrew
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