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How many home screens do you have?

MoodyBlues

MoodyBlues

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How many home screens/desktops do you have?

Right now, on this phone, I have 7; I did have it set at 11, but found that unwieldy.

How do you use your desktops? I like my screens completely devoid of ANYTHING; I prefer to look at my live wallpaper, the beautiful and interactive aniPet Koi.

But there are certain things I want quickly accessible, so I have a widget on one screen, app shortcuts on another, but mostly nothing.

So, how do you set yours up?

By the way, we've had multiple desktops in the UNIX/Linux world for five decades. Last I heard, window$ still hadn't copied this feature.
 
i have like 5. the main home screen is for my weather and time widget with my desktop set to phone contacts, emails, and messages. the next one is for things that i watch, listen or read. the third is for my sports with a few sports ticker widgets, the fourth is for productivity with things like banking and shopping, the 5th is for my games
 
Three (used to be more).

Main page: clock widget (KWGT, so I add a bit of status information to it. I usually keep the status bar hidden). Sometimes a ToDo widget in a corner.

Second page: full screen scrolling calendar widget (I came to smartphones from PDAs, and PDA functionality is still my main reason for having one).

Third page: weather widget (which I tend to forget) and live train departures.

Nova with continuous scrolling of desktops (i.e. I can just loop round rather than reaching the end and having to go back).

No apps on the desktop. A rotating dock with one page of key apps (phone, calculator, email, SMS, calendar) and two pages of app folders. I mostly use the folders, think I just keep the one conventional dock page so that if I lend the phone to someone they can find the phone app...

As for virtual desktops, Windows 10 does finally support the feature, though I've met plenty of Windows users who aren't aware of it.
 
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Home is my calendar (Calengoo), weather (HD widgets) and clock/date (Make Your Own Clock)
2nd is the apps I use all time; a folder for Google docs/keep/sheets, Photos, Instagram, Snap, Play store, shortcuts to here and another forum and some games
3rd is my media screen; MLB, NHL, YTTV, Pandora, Amazon video and a PowerAmp widget
The last one just has settings and maps. I keep thinking I'll move them the 2nd screen and only have 3 but that just hasn't happened yet

I have my phone, Gmail, Messages, Duo, Whatsapp, Google Voice, Chrome, Feedly and the app drawer shortcut on my dock with looping. I swipe up for Twitter (Tweetings), swipe up w/2 fingers for Reddit (Joey) and down with 2 fingers for Google Pay (thank you Nova Prime!!). Oh, and StarkDev Outcast icons.
 
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I usually only have one. (using nova pro)

I keep two folders, one for google apps and another for root tools. A few apps remain outside these folders, like google sound search, camera, spotify, and chrome etc.

I like things neat and easily accessible from one screen.
 
Hadron said:
As for virtual desktops, Windows 10 does finally support the feature
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Really?! And it only took them five decades to copy UNIX!
though I've met plenty of Windows users who aren't aware of it.
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It probably confuses them. I mean the ones who are aware of it.

When I switched my mom from window$ to Linux (Kubuntu), I only gave her one desktop. I didn't want to deal with the inevitable confusion multiple desktops would've caused. I could just hear her: "My game just DISAPPEARED!" (after she inadvertently moved to another desktop).

So does window$' idea of virtual desktops include amazing visual effects like I've had with KDE forever, like cubes and such?

These screenshots show my system wallpaper in the background, which is only seen when I cube my nine desktops, and each desktop's wallpaper:

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No, nothing like that. It's much lower key, doesn't even come with anything like the Gnome desktop switcher tool. It's not something you'd easily discover if you didn't know it was there (or weren't the sort of person who clicks every button to see what options exist ;)).

(I'll confess that I'm not a big one for the visual effects, though I do always give each desktop a different wallpaper so that I always know where I am without having to think. And I don't offhand know whether the Windows implementation supports that, as I rarely use Windows).
 
I have 8 using Nova Prime. A main screen with the things I use all the time. A second with the less used apps but still important. Third with the occasionally used things. Forth with a widget of frequently needed contacts and extra room for current important items. And 4 screens with photos of loved ones.
 
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