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[onefixedstar]

I was unusually grumpy when autumn first arrived. It's usually my favourite season, but for some reason, this year it just seemed too cold. Now, however, I'm loving it. I went running this morning and it was beautiful out--not too hot, not too cold, and leaves crunching underfoot everywhere.

I've decided that one of the features I would really like in Windows (or some alternate OS) is a project view. At the moment, I'm dividing my time between three separate projects, each of which requires multiple windows (e.g. OneNote for rough notes and outlines, a couple of Word files for previous and ongoing drafts, and Firefox for library searches). I like being able to jump back and forth between projects as I get bored or frustrated, but right now that means I either have to keep opening and closing the appropriate files, or leave everything open all the time, which is confusing and tends to leave my desktop uncomfortably cluttered. What I want is to be able to assocate a group of windows together and then hit one button and have it bring up all of the grouped windows while minimizing all of the others so that I can't see them.

In other geeky news, I finally got around to hooking up my LCD monitor to my laptop. I'm enjoying the extra real estate--double the screen space, double the pleasure. Well, maybe not double and maybe not pleasure, but I'm sure my productivity is up by a good ten percent. It would be more, but I'm spending quite a bit of time figuring out the most effective use for the extra space.

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[semiotic-trader.livejournal.com]

I realized after I hit "Post Comment" that it was probably something common to all X11 Windows-based systems. But since I've never used any GUI other than KDE, I thought I'd go with what I know... Anyway, you can get KDE on Red Hat and Mandrake. :)

[reiber.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Heh. See, I saw "Knoppix" and instantly stopped thinking. You're right, I use KDE on Mandrake, which is the funny part. I used XWindows on Redhat, though.