You
can use multiple workspaces to better manage open applications.
It is common to have many applications running at the same time.
When you run several applications on one workspace at the same time,
the display can become cluttered. Zeta there fore comes with 9 workspaces
as default, but you choose to have from 1 workspace till 32 workspaces.
You can set the screen resolution and colour depth for each one
of them. Each workspace can hold its own set of windows that you
are working in.
Multiple workspaces allow you to open any number of applications
and place them onto different work areas. You can easily switch
in between the workspaces through the Workspaces application, or
through:
+
to
+
for the first 9 workspaces.
You should use different workspaces to organize your work. For
example, you can have Internet applications, such as an e-mail client
and a web browser running on one workspace, and productivity applications,
such as a word processor and spreadsheet application running on
another workspace. The e-mail client Beam lets you set the workspace,
which it will open in.

You can move a window from one workspace to another workspace to
another by dragging its miniature representation in the Workspaces
window. If the window that you are dragging, contains a picture,
and the color depths on the workspaces are different, the picture
will adjust to the new color depth in real-time. When you open a
folder that's already open in another workspace, the window is brought
into your current workspace, and is removed from the workspace it
was in. However, if you select a window from the Deskbar's
App Menu, you're taken to the workspace that the window is open
in ("remote" windows are indicated by speedlines
in the App Menu).

Advanced use of Workspaces
You can make Workspaces automatically start up as you boot Zeta.
To do this, you will have to configure the UserBootscript (/boot/home/config/boot/UserBootscript).
To this script you should then add the following line:
/boot/beos/apps/Workspaces &
You can also launch various applications in various workspaces
from the same UserBootscript. For example:
Workspaces 4
Terminal &
sleep 2
Workspaces 3
CodyCam &
sleep 2
Workspaces 0
Beware that adding automatic startups of the applications you
use most to the startup script, will make the bootup session last
longer.
You can switch from one workspace to another also from the command
line, by simply typing for instance:
Workspaces 4
Be aware that that command will actually bring you to workspace
#5, since workspaces are numbered starting with 0.
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