Utilizing Activities and Virtual Desktops

Another of KDE's extensive features is known as Activities. You may be familiar with Virtual Desktops (also known as Workspaces), which is a concept used in practically every Linux desktop environment. With Virtual Desktops, you can have completely separate screens running different applications. KDE allows you to utilize Virtual Desktops as well, but the feature is disabled by default. In System Settings (KDE's configuration tool), you can click on Workspace Behavior and then Virtual Desktops and enable Virtual Desktops by changing the number of available desktops to any number greater than 1. To switch between Virtual Desktops, you can add the Pager Plasmoid to your panel to easily switch between them. After enabling it, the concept works the same here as it does in other environments. However, KDE actually takes this a step further.

Activities is a concept very similar to Virtual Desktops, but it offers additional features. With Activities...