Quoting message written on Tuesday 2014-05-27 09:43:07 by Yury: > Weeell, if there can't be anything better in > wmaker than a set of workspaces, separated with > impenetrable borders from each other, then the > whole discussion is somewhat pointless. > > Knowing wmaker only superficially, I was sort of > hoping something like Xview pager is > implementable fairly easily.
It's possible to implement it but there would be no point in presenting workspaces like 3x3 or 5x5 table. Workspaces are best represented either horizontally or vertically (at least this is the case with current Windowmaker). This is the difference in approach to solving the need for additional virtual "screens". One approach is known as virtual desktop and when it's configured to have e.g. 3x3 or 5x5 "cells", it acts like a single huge screen. That implies that the first, upper cell would start with the coordinates x=0, y=0 and the other cells would add the size of the cell to their x and y coordinates. The other is known as virtual workspaces and all workspace start at x=0, y=0. That means that when you move some window to a different workspace, the window could keep the same coordinates. One thing that would change when the window is changing workspace is the ID of it's workspace. There are several standards that tried to define some basic rules for workspace support (KWM (kde1), GNOME, EWMH a.k.a NETwm a.k.a freedesktop). -- Josip Deanovic -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
