Ability to dynamically create more workspaces?

Dear all,

By default, I have 4 workspaces.

Sometimes, I reach my 4th screen and wish I could just press Ctrl + Alt + → to open a new workspace dynamically.

I may have just overlooked it.

Is this possible?

Short answer ; no. :slight_smile:

(More than likely this is because if you had Ctrl + Alt + →as any default to create a new workspace it would break the wrap-around feature for multiple desktops, which incidentally, doesn’t work…) For now, you’ll need to manually go in and create another virtual desktop. A new “create new virtual desktop” command would need to be created to allow you to do what you’re trying to accomplish. How feasible that it, in terms of time, code and priority, I couldn’t tell you.

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Thank you!

The only way to create new workspaces manually is here, correct?

That’s correct (if you’re doing it by GUI).

If you’re using the Marco compositor, you could use a terminal command

gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general num-workspaces x (where x is the number of desktops you want to use).

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Cool, I like it!

Let’s leave it here for now.

Thank you!

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