Re: grouping and labeling workspaces?

Sven Arvidsson <[email protected]> Thu, 05 Jan 2017 13:50:02 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 11:54 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> When I have a lot of projects going concurrently, I try to set up
> different things on different workspaces.  One particular project or
> activity may have 3 to 5 workspaces.
> 
> Is there a way to group the workspaces and have the workspace
> switcher
> emphasize workspaces in the group that I'm currently interested in?
> 
> Is there also a way to put labels on the workspaces in the switcher,
> or
> to colour-code them, e.g. blue for one project and gray for another
> project?
> 
> In window managers with a grid-shaped workspace switcher, a crude
> workaround to this problem involves using a different row in the grid
> for each project.  As the GNOME 3 shell displays all the workspaces
> in a
> single column, that isn't possible.

Hi,

You probably need to look into extensions for that kind of
functionality:

https://extensions.gnome.org/

A quick search finds extensions for creating a grid of workspaces, and
labels, but I don't think there's anything for grouping several
workspaces together.

HTH,

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se

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