Virtual desktop
A virtual desktop is a desktop that, with the help of software, is larger than the display screen. This can be achieved either by enlarging the work surface horizontally or vertically, in which the visible area (image section) of the larger logical area can be moved back and forth, or by using several desktops of the same type, between which you can switch back and forth. Virtual desktops are intended to expand the limited space on a screen, so the smaller the screen , the more used they are. Especially with subnotebooksSetting up a larger virtual desktop is often the only way to meet monitor resolution requirements. If there are several desktops, application windows can be distributed across the various desktops, which can usually be assigned numbers or names, which in some cases increases the clarity enormously.
Under Linux in particular , the term "virtual desktop" is commonly used as a synonym for the individually visible workspace area. Virtual desktops = multiple work surfaces (areas) are supported by every graphical Linux user interface and every Linux window manager . The Linux interfaces Unity and Gnome Shell call the virtual desktops "workspaces" and "workspaces", respectively. They are called in the Gnome Shell via the "Activities" overview. KDE SC, on the other hand, uses "activities" as a term for (multiple) work environments, which in turn can contain a large number of virtual desktops.
Starting with version 10 also receives Microsoft Windows - Operating System virtual desktops / desktops.
In Apple's Mac OS , the corresponding concept of multiple work surfaces is called Spaces .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meredith Ringel: When One Isn't Enough: An Analysis of Virtual Desktop Usage Strategies and Their Implications for Design . Stanford 2003.
- ↑ When One Isn't Enough: An Analysis of Virtual Desktop Usage Strategies and Their Implications for Design (Meredith Ringel). Retrieved November 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Virtual Desktops. Retrieved November 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Linux Desktop: Virtual desktops. Retrieved November 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Activities, Dash, Top Panel ... what is it? (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 19, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ GNOME, KDE and Unity: Virtual Desktops. Retrieved November 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Windows 10 offers virtual desktops. Retrieved November 1, 2014 .
