Most of us would be overwhelmed by the endless browser tabs and all the software windows cluttering up our computer. Virtual Desktop for Chromebooks has made task management much easier. You can create workspaces for each class or have a dedicated desk for gaming. Your organizational prospects practically It’s endless, but few users take full advantage of this feature. Google is experimenting with putting a virtual desk front and center in the Chrome OS environment, so I hope you get a sense of how useful it can be.
We have work in progress in the Chromium Gerrit, which shows a persistent virtual desktop, internally called “Bentova”. If you have multiple desks, you’ll see a bar at the top of your Chromebook screen. The flag is missing in the latest Chrome OS Canary build. However, we take some effort to get it working on our Chromebook.
The Work in Progress feature puts the virtual desk front and center.
When you log in to your user account, you’ll see a thin bar that takes up a small portion of the top of your Chromebook’s screen. Depending on the number of tables, the strips are filled. Click the label to compress the screen on this virtual desktop. To the right of the bar are two buttons: an overflow menu to hide or show the strip, and a shortcut to launch the active window’s Expo.
Experimenting with the new bento bar is great for multitaskers and students like me who often use virtual desktops. Instead of constantly swiping on my Chromebook’s trackpad or pressing the outline key first, the Lunch Bar keeps my desk a click away. I am interested in getting work done efficiently and this feature is a step in that direction.
Bento bars are far from perfect. Reminds me that the experiment is still in its infancy. There are bugs that prevent me from taking full advantage of it, such as covering most of the application’s title bar and obscuring the taskbar’s awkward position when docked to the left or right side of the screen. to give. I also prefer the option to automatically show the bar when I move the mouse over the screen.
The bug I described will probably be fixed when Google officially releases Lunch Bar on Chromebooks from now on. With the same function named Custom Desk, a few useful keyboard shortcuts, and smooth transitions, Google is serious about taking Chromebook productivity to a whole new level. We will eventually. Set different wallpapers on your virtual desktop too.