On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:45:45 -0500 "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <[email protected]> said:
> > There is a difference between what e16 meant by a virtual desk top and > what the term means in e17... > > What e17 calls a virtual desktop is more like what e16 called multiple > desktops. Which could each have their own background image... > > IN e16 each one of the multiple desktops had as many virtual desktops > as set in the virtual desktop settings. And each of the virtual > desktops would share the same background image. > > The "VIRTUAL" desktops in e16 shared something else however. > Occasionally (probably due to my insistence on large fonts that I can > actually read) a gui tool won't fit properly on the screen. There may > be some buttons that I need just a little bit too far down, or even > too far to the right for me to get at them... But with e16 as long as > I opened the said gui tool in something besides the bottom row or > rightmost column of my virtual desktops I could switch to the virtual > desktop below, (or to the right) And the rest of the gui tool would be > accessible there... > > Is there a way to do this with e17's idea of a virtual desktop??? no. as such e17 shows and hides windows when flipping desktops - thus windows on another desktop are literally hidden and not visible. this tends to be more efficient. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
