xfwm4 window mapping

[edscott wilson garcia]

Hi Olivier,

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 01:45, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Edscott,
> 
> Humm, I see no problem here. that's the way it works (even in other WM,
> including xfce3)
> 
> It seems you're being confused with desktops and viewports (according to
> the definitions from the freedesktop.org:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/wm-spec/1.3/html/x27.html)

Ah, that explains it. The "wrap workspaces when the pointer reaches the
screen edge" functions gave me the impression that the desktops were
separate portions of a single viewport. A kind of virtual screen
resolution without panning. Obviously not the case.

You make it difficult to find bugs in xfwm4 ;-)

regards,

Edscott

> 
> xfwm4 doesn't support viewports inside desktops.
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 03:40, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> >  Hi Olivier,
> > 
> > Moving windows in xfwm4: when a window is placed between two desktops
> > the corresponding part is only visible in one desktop, the other desktop
> > does not display its portion, which may be indeed 99 percent of the
> > window. The pager exhibits the same behaviour. It doesn't seem right.
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Edscott
> > 
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