 So, someone asked me why I use so many workspaces. So I thought I would actually make a video about why I like workspaces so much, because I wasn't always this way. In fact, there was a time when I was a KDE fanboy and I was fairly new to Linux and instead of using workspaces, I just had all my windows on my two monitors and they were piled on top of each other. It was a bloody mess. It was absolutely horrible. And I am so glad those days are behind me. Now I wouldn't be what you'd call the most organized of people, like I'm really not. Like I try to be, I try to be very organized, but I mostly fail. But in my attempts at trying to be organized, one of the things that I've come to realize is that I really like to have things in their place. At least on my computer, like I'm a very much, I would say I'm much more organized in my digital life than I am in other places in my life, that's for sure. On my computer, I enjoy having things in their place and I like to have a place for everything. So that's the reason why I like workspaces so much, because it allows me to assign actual dedicated screens. So in this case, I'm talking about virtual screens to a certain task. So for example, right now, if I showed you this, you could see that I'm recording my audio in audacity. This is audacity and there's nothing special about it, but I always, always whenever I have this application open, I have it on workspace six on this monitor. I know exactly where it's at. I can always go to it. Now, I also have OBS open on my other monitor on workspace 16. Those workspaces never change. I'm so used to having it in those two places, I know that's where they're at. I never have anything else on those two workspaces. And that's just the way it works best for me. Now, on the other workspaces, I'm not as rigid on what goes there, except for certain ones. So on workspace one, I always have an instance of Firefox. So in this case, I have Firefox open. And this is where an instance of Firefox always lives, right? I will sometimes have Firefox open on another workspace as well, if I have to have things side by side, but I always have one thing of Firefox here. So I know that that's the case. Workspace two, which I'm not going to show you because it probably has some of my actual work on there, I'm going to leave that kind of behind the veil if you will just be a little bit more mysterious. That's where I pretty much do all of my writing is workspace number two. Workspace three is usually a terminal of some kind. I'm either creating a video. In this case, it was for a video about the most important lakes commands you'll ever see. That video will be coming up soon. It's recorded. It's hilarious. I was so much of an asshole. It's not even funny, but that's beside the point. Workspace three is almost always a terminal. Workspace seven is usually something where I'm reading something. So if I have a PDF open, in this case, I do, I have that open up on seven. Now, I'm only using on this workspace here, I have a total of nine workspaces. I'm only using five. OK, that's usually around average. I use between five and seven workspaces per monitor. That's usually where I'm at. I have a few extras that aren't usually used for anything, but I like having extras in case I want to put something there. I could probably be OK with 14 workspaces. That's usually about the absolute max I ever use at one time is 14. On this monitor here, I always use more workspaces than on this one because on workspace 19, I have discord on all the time. That's where discord lives. Workspace 18, I always have crusader. That's where crusader lives. It's always there. Workspace 10, which is the first workspace on this monitor, I have my to-do list and I have ZimWiki. Those things are always there. The other workspaces on this one usually are a combination between other instances of Firefox. I usually always have one or two because I'm working on a project or something and I need something on this screen that's not on this screen. I don't want to move this version of Firefox over somewhere else because I know that's where it's supposed to go. And so I have some of those here. Also, I have some other terminal things. If I'm ricing or something, chances are I'll have a terminal over here or if I'm creating notes for a video or whatever, those things go on other workspaces on this monitor over here. So as you can tell, my workflow is not a standard workflow by any means. I'm okay with that. I understand that most normal people don't have 20 workspaces. Good for those people. I'm happy for you. If you can live with just one or two or three workspaces, good for you. That's your workflow. That's what makes sense for you. But for me, I like workspaces a lot. And I like to have places for things. And I like to assign things to certain workspaces. That's the way I've been working now for two or three years. And it'd be really hard for me at this point. And it is actually, when I use a window manager that only has nine workspaces, like let's just say Qtile or Xmonad, those by default only come with nine workspaces. You can make them have more. But by default, you get nine. That's all you get. And it's shared between two monitors. So you don't get like, like DWM gives you nine, but it gives you nine on each monitor. So you're golden there, or at least I'm golden there. But on the other ones, you only get nine total. And I find myself very constrained. Like I'm always running out of workspaces. Like even if, like almost instantaneously, I'll open up, I'll turn on the computer and get all my stuff set up. And all but one workspaces is full. Like it has stuff. Now, I know what you're thinking. Well, Matt, you could put more than one window on a workspace. That's true. And sometimes they do. So sometimes I have a, like in this case, on the OBS screen, I have a terminal and OBS open up at the same time. If I'm making a video and I need the notes right there in front of me, I can do that. You know, sometimes I do that. Most of the time though, I just want one thing on a workspace. It's just easier. It's bigger. You know, my eyesight's not that great so I can zoom in all I want without having to deal with weird wrapping of text and stuff like that. So that's the reason why I prefer to just have one thing on a workspace. It just works better for me. So to the person who has asked me why I use some of my workspace, that's the reason why. Again, I don't probably need 19 or 20 workspaces. I could do with 14. The problem comes in with keybindings. So the way I have it worked right now and the reason why I like I3 so much is because with I3, you can set a dedicated keybinding to every single workspace you have no matter how many workspaces you've created. So you can create as many workspaces as you want. There's no limit, which is my kind of win a manager. But you can also create a keybinding for every single one that you create. So I have super one through nine will interact with the workspaces on this monitor. Alt one through nine or zero through nine does the workspaces on this monitor here. And because they're segmented into one through nine and zero through nine over here, they kind of line up with the number row. Like there's zero through nine and then one through nine are basically the same range of numbers and it just makes it easier. When I, for a little while, a few weeks ago, I tried to cut it down. I tried to tone down the addiction and I went to 14 workspaces. It was fine, but then I had one through seven over here and eight through 14 over there. And then assigning those two different keybindings messed with my brain because I had the windows key one through seven for over here and then I had the alt key one through seven over there. And those numbers didn't line up. So alt plus one was the eighth workspace and that messed with my head. Like I like the number on the keyboard to associate with the workspace that I'm changing to, if that makes sense. So in my case, alt zero goes to workspace 10. There's no 10 key. So zero is the closest I get to. Same thing for anything above that. It's alt one goes to 11, alt two, 12, so on and so forth. It still makes a little bit sense. When they don't match up, it kind of messed with my head. So I eventually went back to 19 workspaces. So that is why I use my workspaces and kind of how I manage them. If you're interested in seeing the config files, all of my dot files are on my GitHub. 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