[rescue] The window mangler war

[Al Potter]

> On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 01:23 AM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:45:10PM -0500, Al Potter wrote:
> >> So, I guess I missed it, twice...
> >>
> >> Do either Blackbox or Fluxbox support BOTH virtual desktops AND 
> >> multiple
> >> desktops?
> >
> > What's the difference?
> 
> 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.
> 

This is closest.  

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Desktop:	+-----+  display space = actual resolution
		| xx  |
		| xx  |   xx's are an application window
		+-----+

Virtual
Desktop:	+-----+-----+-----+
		| xx  |     |     | Display space is greater than actual
		| xx  |     |     |   resolution
		+-----+-----+-----+
		|    xxx    |     | One can "pan" from one virtual desktop
		|    xxx   xxxxxxx|    to another
		+-----+----xxxxxxx+
		|     |    xxxxxxx| Applications larger than the physical
		|     |    xxxxxxx|    resolution spill over to and are viewable
		+-----+-----+-----+    on the virtual adjacent window

Multiple desktops are more than one of wither of the above.

Olvwm, fvwm (and others) have virtual desktops.

Blackbox, Fluxbox (from what I can see), olm, CDW (mwm) et al have multiple desktops.

Enlightenment has both.

What else has both?



AL