xfwm4 + Zaphod mode + Wrap workspace

[xfce at theiling.de]

Hi again!

Just to be sure, is this the right place to suggest patches or should I 
post somewhere else? There was no enthusiastic reaction, so I was wondering.

Best regards,
   Henrik

On 14/09/12 13:25, xfce at theiling.de wrote:
> Hi Erik!
>
> In 4.10 the code in question has not changed at all, so it would be nice
> to get this upstream. Please find a patch attached for 4.10.
>
> As I said, I don't understand why it is there, because if the feature is
> undesired by anyone, it can be switched off in the options. And in my
> case, it does exactly what I want, so it should not be hardcoded off, I
> think.
>
> Best regards,
> Henrik
>
> On 14/09/12 07:18, Silvio Knizek wrote:
>> Hi Erik,
>>
>> ever tried xfce4.10? 4.8 gets only security updates AFAIK.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> c'ya at irc://irc.freenode.net/xfce <http://irc.freenode.net/xfce>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "xfce at theiling.de" <xfce at theiling.de> schrieb:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> My name is Henrik and I subscribed to the XFCE mailing list.
>>
>> First of all, thanks for all the good work! Finally after years of
>> using fvwm1 (a private patched version), I found a good replacement for
>> it in xfce. I am running Debian Wheezy (i.e., xfce 4.8), and xorg with
>> an intel driver on a Laptop. X11 ist set up to run in Zaphod mode,
>> i.e., two heads with separate screens :0.0 and :0.1.
>>
>> In this setting, I noticed that xfwm does not wrap the workspace despite
>> enabling this feature. It works when pulling a window along, but not
>> without. I have set up no logical relation between the screens (no
>> LeftOf or the like, I am switching with 'xdotool mousemove'), so I don't
>> know exactly why xfwm thinks it's a bad idea to wrap the workspace with
>> the mouse. But it really does, hardcoded, in events.c:
>>
>>
>> if
>> (display_info->nb_screens> 1)
>> {
>> /* Wrap workspace/wrap windows is disabled with multiscreen */
>> return EVENT_FILTER_REMOVE;
>> }
>>
>> Does anyone know why exactly this is disabled? I mean, if you don't
>> like it, you can disable the feature in the WM settings nice and easy.
>> Because I wanted this feature badly, I put a #if 0...#endif around the
>> above code and recompiled, and it works like a charm. I couldn't see
>> any bug in my multiscreen setup.
>>
>> So please consider removing those lines of code. Again: if you don't
>> like xfwm's behaviour for some reason (e.g. because X moves the cursor
>> to the other screen when hitting the edge (which it does not do for me
>> due to the missing relationship of the screens)), you can always disable
>> the feature. But I could not *enable* it in my case except for
>> recompiling.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Henrik
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