How many home screens do you have?

MoodyBlues · Jul 13, 2019

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.

ocnbrze · Jul 13, 2019

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

joe71 · Jul 13, 2019

I have two but only use one

PitCarver · Jul 13, 2019

6 and a blank page to experiment on.

Dannydet · Jul 13, 2019

I use 2 with nova

Hadron · Jul 13, 2019

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.

psionandy · Jul 13, 2019

2

The front page has my main apps on it with groups set up so i can get multiple apps there.
Key apps in that group can be activated by swiping up on the group icon.

(I love Nova)

sam expert · Jul 13, 2019

I use POCO F1 and I have 3 home screen and I use only one and if want to use any app I launch that app from the app drawer.

Clementine_3 · Jul 13, 2019

4 -
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.

GameTheory · Jul 13, 2019

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.

MoodyBlues · Jul 13, 2019

I dislike infinite scrolling, so I disable that in my launcher, ADW Launcher 2 (paid).

I'm currently using desktop 7 for goofing around! Like trying new settings or widgets, without worrying about screwing things up.

MoodyBlues · Jul 13, 2019

Hadron said:
As for virtual desktops, Windows 10 does finally support the feature

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.

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:

Hadron · Jul 13, 2019

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).

Shotgun84 · Jul 13, 2019

I've got three but honestly the things I regularly use on them could fit onto one. No idea why I haven't put them all onto one, too lazy I guess.

filthy phil · Jul 13, 2019

Just one
I Alternate between topless actress pics
Currently Shannen Doherty in her prime

MoodyBlues · Jul 13, 2019

filthy phil said:
Just one
I Alternate between topless actress pics
Currently Shannen Doherty in her prime

Do you have any apps/widgets on that screen or, like @Hadron and me, are you a minimalist who likes their screens uncluttered?

markdoc · Jul 13, 2019

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.

filthy phil · Jul 14, 2019

MoodyBlues said:
Do you have any apps/widgets on that screen or, like @Hadron and me, are you a minimalist who likes their screens uncluttered?

The 1st screen there's not enough apps to cover her good bits.
I always get compliments when someone is close enough to see

MoodyBlues · Jul 14, 2019

filthy phil said:
The 1st screen there's not enough apps to cover her good bits.
I always get compliments when someone is close enough to see

I'm sure you do!

dontpanicbobby · Jul 15, 2019

4 screens on my LG G6, 3 on my HTC 10 and 2 on my LG G7 ThinQ.

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