Personally, I was using 3 virtual desktops and today I switched to 4 of them. I wonder how many VD people are usually using (if any) and how to they sort things out between these desktops?
Category: Technology
VNC Viewer
Since I am using VNC very often I was looking for some good VNC viewer. Recently I realized that Krdc (comes with KDE) is the best choice (at least for me) since it supports both VNC and RDP, have good integration into KDE and supports image scaling in VNC which is a very useful feature
3ddesktop
3ddesktop – yet another fancy feature for the desktop effects collection. There are many modes for switching desktops including flipping, sliding, linear, carousel and others. Works pretty fast (depends on the settings) even on not very powerful video cards (I have tried it on Intel 915 built-in chipset) and is easy to set it up.
The only thing I didn\’t manage to change is keyboard shortcuts inside switching mode.
FC4 Install Over VNC
Today I tried to install FC4 over VNC and it seems to be working very good. I found this solution very nice when there is a lack of monitors/keyboards/mice at the desk with many PCs. On the LAN level the speed of VNC is very good so having everything displayed on one monitor (splitted into many virtual desktops) is much better solution than to have all I/O equipment for every machine.
Reading Logs
I found nice software to read logs: multitail – it is a ncurses based log reader which supports multiple windows for multiple logs, merging multiple logs to single window, regex based colors and many other features. Very nice way to watch your logs in realtime.