what does the drawing pin / thumbtack do?

[Chris Roy-Smith]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 09:40:16 +0200, Paul Brown wrote:

> On Sunday, 20 August 2017 07:28:03 CEST Chris Roy-Smith wrote:
>> Having a play with kde plasma 5. I have not used kde for about 10 
years.
>> Much has changes in that time. I can't figure out what the purpose of 
the
>> drawing pin / thumb tack on the top left corner of a window. Somebody
>> please reveal it's purpose, or point me in the direction of an 
appropriate
>> web site.
>> 
>> Regards, Chris Roy-Smith
> 
> You know how you can have several desktops, typically 2 or 4?
> 
> The thumbtack sticks the window to all the desktops. So say you have 
two 
> desktops and you thumbtack the window you are reading this message in. 
When 
> you go to the other desktop, it'll be there, in the same position.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul

Thanks for that, I never thought to look at other virtual desktops after 
toggling it.