#Underrated #KDE #Plasma feature: #Activities
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#Underrated #KDE #Plasma feature: #Activities
Folks get these confused with virtual desktops, but think of it more like a totally separate environment for different tasks/projects.
You may use any number of virtual desktops to help organize the various subtasks or applications within a given job, but let's say you wanted a whole 'nother set of desktops for a different tasks.
Let's say you do your main work in your main activity, and you've got 6 or more desktops all firing on all eight cylinders with all kinds of terminal windows, browser windows, whatever. But let's say you've set aside a day for training, and you want to have a totally clean environment just for training/classes, without closing out all of the other stuff you have going on in your work Activity, because you want to jump right back into it tomorrow after training's done.
No worries, just go into System Settings, Apps & Windows -> Activities, and create a new activity. You can name it and give it its own icon, etc.
I use Super+~ to switch between activities — I confess I forgot what the default one is, but you can find it under System Settings, Input & Output -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts and either look it up there or change it to whatever you like.
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@rl_dane i'd use them A LOT more if browsers respected them when opening links...
unfortunately there's only so much you can do for that, even when setting up things like firefox profiles or so
