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    <desc>Workspaces are a way of grouping windows on your desktop.</desc>

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<title>What is a workspace, and how will it help me?</title>

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Workspace selector

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Workspaces refer to the grouping of

  windows on your desktop. You can create multiple workspaces, which act like

  virtual desktops. Workspaces are meant to reduce clutter and make the desktop

  easier to navigate.

  
Workspaces refer to the grouping of

  windows on your desktop. You can use multiple workspaces, which act like

  virtual desktops. Workspaces are meant to reduce clutter and make the desktop

  easier to navigate.

  
Workspaces can be used to organize your work. For example, you could have

  all your communication windows, such as e-mail and your chat program, on one

  workspace, and the work you are doing on a different workspace. Your music

  manager could be on a third workspace.

Using workspaces:

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In the

    <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui> overview, move your cursor

    to the right-most side of the screen.

    
Press the

    <key xref="keyboard-key-super">Super</key> key to open the

    <gui>Activities</gui> overview and then move your cursor to the right-most

    side of the screen.

  </item>

  <item>

    
A vertical panel will appear showing

    workspaces in use, plus an empty workspace. This is the

    workspace selector.

    
A vertical panel will appear showing

    available workspaces. This is the workspace selector.

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To add a workspace, drag and drop a window from an existing workspace

    onto the empty workspace in the workspace selector. This workspace now

    contains the window you have dropped,

    and a new empty workspace will appear below it.

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  <item if:test="!platform:gnome-classic">

    
To remove a workspace, simply close all of its windows or move them to

    other workspaces.

  </item>

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There is always at least one workspace.

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