Using Workspaces

Workspaces are like separate screens or windows. To help organize your desktop, you can have separate workspaces for different groups of related tasks. For example, a workspace you've named Reports could contain the tools you use to prepare reports, such as a spreadsheet, desktop publisher, and graphics applications. You might set up other workspaces according to your projects.

This section describes how to display workspaces, place windows in specific workspaces, and rename workspaces.

For information about using your keyboard for desktop navigation, refer to Appendix A, Keyboard Shortcuts for the Desktop.

To Display Another Workspace

Mouse

Click the workspace's button in the workspace switch of the Front Panel.

Keyboard

1. Press Alt+Tab until the keyboard focus, as shown by the highlight, is on the Front Panel.

2. Press the arrow keys to move the highlight to the button for the

   workspace you want to display.

3. Press Return.

To Place a Window in Other Workspaces

Mouse

1. Click the Window menu button.

   The Window menu appears.

2. Choose Occupy Workspace from the Window menu.

3. In the Workspaces list of the Occupy Workspace dialog box, select the workspaces in which you want the window to appear.

   • To select more than one contiguous workspace name in the list, hold down Shift while you click.

   • To select discontiguous workspace names in the list, hold down Control while you click.

   • Click a selected workspace to deselect it.

   • To place the window in every workspace, click the All Workspaces button.

4. Click OK.

Keyboard

1. To display the Window menu, press Alt+Spacebar.

2. Press the Down Arrow key to select Occupy Workspace, then press Return.

   The Occupy Workspace dialog box appears.

3. Press Tab until the keyboard focus, as shown by the highlight, is in the Workspaces list.

4. Select the workspaces in which you want the window to appear:

   • Press Down Arrow or Up Arrow to move through the list.

   • To select more than one workspace, press Shift+Down Arrow or Shift+Up Arrow.

5. Press Return.

To Rename a Workspace

Mouse

1. Click the Front Panel button for the workspace whose name you want to change.

   That workspace is displayed.

2. Click the workspace's Front Panel button again.

   The button becomes a text field.

3. Edit the workspace's name in the text field.

4. Once you've renamed the workspace, press Return.

Keyboard

1. Press Alt+Tab until the keyboard focus, as shown by the highlight, is on the Front Panel.

2. Press the arrow keys to move the highlight to the button for the workspace you want to rename.

3. Press Shift+F10 to display the workspace button's pop-up menu.

4. Press the Down Arrow key to select the Rename item, then press Return.

   The button becomes a text field.

5. Edit the workspace's name in the text field.

6. Once you've renamed the workspace, press Return.