Workspace auto-switching...

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:54:47 -0400
David Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> In an older version of RedHat (6 I think...) You could have, say, 4 
> desktops arranged in a 2x2 square pattern. Then you had the option of 
> automatically flipping to a particular workspace just by moving the 
> cursor all the way to the edge of the screen.
> 	Say you were in workspace 1, and wanted to get to 2. You'd just move 
> your cursor to the right edge, and keep "pushing" until it flipped to 2. 
> Then go to 4 by "pushing" on the bottom edge of workspace 2.
> 
> 	Anyone remember that?
> 
> 	I've poked around, and could find were to enable that. Anyone have any 
> pointers?

If I understand correctly, this is a window manager function, and metacity
(default Gnome window manager) doesn't do it. You can do something like
this in KDE, although the switch is right-left, not up - down as well.

Several window managers will do desktop/workspace switching like this -
Fluxbox can be configured to do it, as can Enlightenment Both KDE and
Fluxbox, and I think Xfce (xfwm window manager?) can in addition be
configured to switch workspace with mouse scrolling on the root window.

Gnome used to use Enlightenment as a window manager (before Sawfish, then
Metacity). I guess it is still possible to change the underlying WM in
Gnome to use E, although I haven't personally tried it. Some people use
Openbox in this way, but whether Openbox has the feature I don't know.

I would guess FVWM does this or something like it too. [It does everything
else, with much hacking of config files, it would seem ;-) ]


Peter

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