switching workspaces
Erik Harrison
erikharrison at gmail.com
Tue May 3 22:32:51 CEST 2005
On 5/3/05, Amichai Teumim <amichai.teumim at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do I make it so that when I drag a windows down below the screen it
> switches to the previous workspace and when i take it up it goes to the
> next workspace?
>
> Lets say I'm in workspace 3, now when i drag it down I want it to go to
> workspace 2 and when I drag it up to workspace 4.
>
You just need vertical workspaces.
You can use the graphical pager plugin to do this, right click on it,
pick properties, and increase the number of rows until they all fit on
a single column.
> thanks
>
> -amichai
>
> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
>
> > hicham wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/3/05, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:11:26PM +0000, hicham wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello
> >>>> I use the autohide option of xfcepanel and taskbar to hide them so
> >>>> I can see any application on the whole screen, xfcepanel and taskbar
> >>>> are located at the bottom of my screen
> >>>> the problem is that sometimes xfcepanel get hidden forever, gettin the
> >>>> mouse pointing on the bottom screen line does not make it reappear. I
> >>>> have to switch off and on the autohide option
> >>>> to get it on screen again
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Are you saying you have both the panel and the taskbar at the bottom
> >>> of the
> >>> screen, overlapping eachother? If that's the case I'm not surprised
> >>> it doesn't
> >>> work properly.
> >>>
> >>> A common reason for problems with autohide is if you have selected
> >>> to option
> >>> to switch workspaces when the mouse reaches the screen edge. It's
> >>> part of the
> >>> window manager settings and this option is not compatible with panel
> >>> autohide.
> >>>
> >>> Jasper
> >>>
> >>
> >> yes the panel and the taskbar are overlapping and I 've got only one
> >> workspace
> >
> >
> > I'm not really surprised that it doesn't work. The panel and the
> > taskbar will both try to catch mouse movements, so that may very well
> > interfere. I don't think I can make that work.
> >
> > If you simply want the panel and a tasklist on the same screen edge,
> > you could try to use the taskbar plugin and simply not run xftaskbar4.
> >
> > Jasper
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