Batman you will want to go into your main menu/preferences/systems settings.Right click on it and select Add to panel. You find most of the things you want to set up here
I totally forgot about that. You can choose your workspaces to show screens or names. So if you name them: 1 2 3 4 Then all you will see is numbers. Also play around with Ctrl+Alt+ArrowKeys There are some pretty need settings and ways to move your windows around to different workspaces