desktops

[zandu]

Hi , With monitors becoming wider is it possible to to run 2 desktops side by side in one monitor ?

thanks in advance

[xenopeek]

Eh Can you explain how that would differ from having one desktop? Cinnamon has various ways to snap windows to a portion of your screen, making it very easy to for example have two windows open side by side. See Preferences > Keyboard from your menu, the Keyboard shortcuts tab, the Window Tiling heading. Default holding down the Super key (Windows key) and pressing an arrow key (up, down, left, right) snaps the window to that edge of the screen and sets it to 50% of the screen. You can then grab and drag the one visible edge of the window to make it smaller or larger. Many more options.

[zandu]

Eh Can you explain how that would differ from having one desktop? Cinnamon has various ways to snap windows to a portion of your screen, making it very easy to for example have two windows open side by side. See Preferences > Keyboard from your menu, the Keyboard shortcuts tab, the Window Tiling heading. Default holding down the Super key (Windows key) and pressing an arrow key (up, down, left, right) snaps the window to that edge of the screen and sets it to 50% of the screen. You can then grab and drag the one visible edge of the window to make it smaller or larger. Many more options.

Thanks I tried that and it doesnt work in cinnamon 13.04 And yes I agree that is all I need , 2 appsopen side by side

[xenopeek]

cinnamon 13.04

Eh? Current Cinnamon version is 2.2. Current Linux Mint release is 17. Ubuntu used "year.month" notation for release numbers; you're using Ubuntu? If you meant Linux Mint 15, as it's based on Ubuntu 13.04, note that those have reached end of life as of January this year and are unsupported since 10 months (e.g., everything you've read/heard about critical security vulnerabilities this year like Heartbleed, Shellshock, and Poodle is not fixed on Ubuntu 13.04 or Linux Mint 15!!!). Time to install Linux Mint 17.