>>>>> "Fleish" == Fleish <fleish_at_stu056.bsc.edu> writes:
Fleish> Second: Can someone explain to me what multiple
Fleish> desktops (not pages) are and how they work exactly. I too,
Fleish> have been awaiting the implementation of StartsOnPage, but
Fleish> might find StartsOnDesk to be somewhat helpful in the interim,
Fleish> if I knew what it was and how it worked.
I recently put this in the FAQ, which you'll see updated with 2.0.44:
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27) What exactly is the differenct between a DESK, a PAGE, and the
SCREEN?
A: Our naming convention is sometimes a source of confusion, and when
discussing problems and the like it's good to maintain a consistent
meaning. To illustrate how features of fvwm should be referred to
- fvwm has multiple disjoint DESKTOPS, each of which is comprised
of M by N PAGES, which are each the size of the physical SCREEN.
The physical SCREEN acts as a viewport over one of the PAGES of the
current DESK. Here's a picture to clarify (also, take a look at
the FvwmPager module):
Desk 0 Desk 1
+----------+----------+ +----------+----------+
| | | | | |
| Page 0 0 | Page 1 0 | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
+----------+----------+ +----------+----------+
|+--------+| | | | |
||Page 0 1|| Page 1 1 | | | |
|| || | | | |
|+--------+| | | | |
+----------+----------+ +----------+----------+
It shows two 2 x 2 DESKTOPS. If the current DESK were number 0,
and the current PAGE were 0 1, the SCREEN would show only the
windows located there, plus any sticky ones.
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How's that?
Chuck
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Received on Fri Nov 22 1996 - 16:05:53 GMT