Virtual Desktops

[Carl Parrish]

Okay I've been confused by this is sawMILL or sawFISH the newer version?

Carl Parrish

Eric Richardson wrote:

> "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 :-)
> 
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