Re: FVWM: Virtual desktop scrolling with Xemacs & VM

From: Daniel Schepler <daniel_at_shep13.wustl.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 18:08:21 -0500

Michael Tiefenback writes:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Daniel Schepler wrote:
>
> > Also, I have a suggestion for an improvement: it would be nice if
> > there were an option to make SmartPlacement look through the whole
> > virtual desktop for free space for a window, so I wouldn't have to
> > switch to an empty screen before a program had time to start up.
>
> I will second this request, but note that it is possible to lose the
> window in a busy desktop, as it might come up somewhere entirely off the
> visible screen. This might be an option to the SmartPlacement
> selection. One might limit the SmartPlacement option to placing new
> windows where they fit with the requirement that some minimum HxV area is
> on the visible screen, similar to the options for EdgeScroll in % of the
> size of a page. The daring could use "0x0" or "0 0", while the rest of
> us would be more restrained.
>
> Michael Tiefenback

I was thinking more that if the window showed up on another screen,
the WM would switch to this screen. Maybe for REALLY crowded
desktops, there could be an option for an amount of time to wait after
switching before the window actually appears.

Daniel Schepler The distinguishing mark of an
daniel_at_shep13.wustl.edu idiot is that he never thinks
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~dkschepl he is one.

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