[rescue] The window mangler war

Sat Feb 8 12:34:01 CST 2003

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:38:53AM -0500, Michael Schiller wrote:

> As I understand it (and I might be wrong) virtual desktops are desktops 
> that are larger than the displayed screen, and you can scroll the 
> screen around within the virtual desktop (say your display is set to 
> 1024x768, but your desktop is 1600x1200, your visible screen would be a 
> window to the whole desktop) multiple desktops are just having more 
> than one 'desktop', but the desktops are all the same size as your 
> displayable screen size.

But then, isn't the virtual desktop a feature provided by the Xserver?