Virtual Desktops

"David A. Sinck" wrote:
>
> \_ SMTP quoth Eric Richardson on 3/20/2001 03:18 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_ Hi,
> \_ Using gnome with standard potato debian. The first box I installed on
> \_ has four virtual desktops with I dropped the desktop pager applet on the
> \_ tool bar. The second one has one.
> \_
> \_ Where is this controlled?
>
> YMMV based on debian and windowmanager, but I can control the
> workspaces/desktops/what have you via
>
> foot/settings/gnome control center
> [app launches]
> sawfish window managger/workspaces
>
> Keep in mind that there are varied names for the "levels of desktop"
> and "my desktop is 3x3".
>
> so you might have 5 "levels" of desktop and have 5 potential "views",
> or you might have 1 "level" and a 9x9 seting for 81 potential
> "views".
>
> Sawfish, at least, calls the "levels" workspaces and the gridding
> "columsns x rows". Other wm would be different. vtwm had one level
> and you could define the number/scaling of your virtual desktop.
>
> Sawfish rocks, btw, but that's just 'cuz I'm a Lisp lover. :-)

Potato just uses sawmill which I guess is sawfish in the newer systems.
I'm using gdm and icewm and also have wmaker installed. I can't find
anything in the control center like you suggest. I must need to hack in
a file somewhere.

Eric :-)