Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> An ignorant question, but do the terms "virtual terminal", "desktop" >> and "virtual desktop" all mean the same thing? > > No, they don't. Virtual terminal is what is also called a text console, > the thing you get into with ctrl-alt-Fn. The "desktop" can mean a lot of > things, but in this context it usually means the visible work-area you see > on the screen when running X. A "virtual desktop" is another such surface, > which is not currently visible and to which you can switch using the pager > or some shortcut or otherwise. Thanks for the enlightenment. Apologies for the OT query. I see now that Alt-Tab switches between virtual desktops on my F-16/KDE system. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
