Desktop management method and apparatus

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus kinds of desktop management, terminal belonging to technical field. The method comprising: listening gesture operation event of the current screen; when listening to the first specified event, displaying the desktop management menu, the menu includes a thumbnail management table all the desktop screen; when listening to the second specified event, according to the said second specified event, the operation target of the specified event and the target desktop management menu of the second specified event process corresponding to the thumbnail screen. The present invention can achieve rapid positioning of the screen, so that the operation is simple and quick desktop, high operating efficiency.