Multitasking
Feel like Gaius Julius Caesar
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Feel like Gaius Julius Caesar
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Performing several tasks simultaneously is not something extraordinary nowadays, it's often a necessity or a desire to combine work and pleasure. A familiar situation to everyone: tasks such as listening to the music or downloading files from the Internet are performed in the background while you are coding or completing wide spreadsheets in the foreground.
With elementary OS, feel free to manage both and for multitasking.
You can move your app windows around your desktop, overlap on each other, and switch between them. Switching can be done by either of the following ways:
Click or tap the window you want to switch to
Click or tap the app icon in the
Press Alt+Tab to cycle through open windows
Do not forget about secondary-click on the window to apply more actions to app windows.
The option of tiling windows is not really developed in elementary OS. All you can do is dragging two windows tight to the left and to the right edge of your desktop respectively, so they would share the screen equally.
By default, app windows open on your current workspace. However, you can use multiple workspaces to organize your workflow and then navigate through them:
To move left or right through your workspaces:
Press ⌘+<-- and ⌘+--> on the keyboard, or
To jump straight to a certain workspace, press ⌘+1 through ⌘+9.
To jump to a new workspace, press ⌘+0.
To move windows between workspaces:
Press ⌘+Alt+<-- or --> respectively.
You can customize these shortcuts in the System Settings (Keyboard --> Shortcuts --> Workspaces).
The Multitasking View shows all open windows and workspaces so you can switch between them. To switch to the multitasking view, do any of the following:
Press ⌘+↓ on the keyboard.
Swipe up with three fingers on a touchpad or touch screen.
Customize hot corners in the System Settings (Desktop → Multitasking).
with three fingers on a touchpad or touch screen.
Drag them in the , or
Select the Multitasking View icon in the Dock (added there by default).
You can use to activate multitasking actions like the window overview, workspace overview, and more.
The , , and appear on your primary display. Any other attached displays act as standalone workspaces.
To manage and rearrange displays, navigate to the System Settings (Displays). Your primary display is marked with a filled-in star (🟊) in the top-left. The settings of each display can be changed from its menu in the top-right.
