On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 02:03:19 -0500
"Christopher L. Everett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 1. in GNOME2:
>
> * Important: I can't drag application windows from workspace to
> workspace. I normally run 8 workspaces, moving windows around
> to where they do me the most good as I go along.
Hmmm. Do you really mean "workspaces" here?
In Gnome 1, there were "workspaces" and "viewports". Workspaces were
completely disconnected; you could move a window from workspace to
workspace using window menu entries (e.g. "Move to workspace 2"), but
otherwise the workspaces were independent. Viewports were different;
it was as if your workspace was, in each of X-Y directions, just as
large as normal, or 2x as large, or 3x as large; and you could move
your view over to another, non-overlapping viewport. Your desktop
icons, sticky windows (like people normally use gkrellm), etc., would
appear in the proper places when you changed viewports. For all
practical purposes, workspaces and viewports behaved identically,
*except* to move a window to a different viewport, you simply dragged
it to the edge of your screen so that it stuck into the next viewport,
then changed viewports and dragged the portion sticking into the new
viewport to where you wanted the window to go. You could also, if you
configured it so, change your current viewport by moving your mouse to
the edge of the screen in the appropriate direction. Not all window
managers supported viewports, but some (e.g. sawfish) did.
It sounds from your use of the word "drag" like you're referring to
viewports. In Gnome 2, multiple workspaces are still around, and are
configurable either through the Desktop Preferences options, or through
adding a "Workspace Switcher" applet to your panel and configuring its
preferences. Viewports, OTOH, are not supported by metacity, the
default window manager for Gnome 2. If you switch to sawfish, you
may be able to get them back, I dunno.
-c
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