Re: FVWM: Can we specify the size of a virtual desktop by myself

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 11:36:08AM +0530, Bhupendra Kumar Jain wrote:
> Hi,

Please stop emailing fvwm@ and fvwm-workers@ -- you just need to use fvwm@.
You're asking a user question, not sending patches, which is what
fvwm-workers@ is for.

> I am looking for inputs from the community about if there is a way where in
> I can specify the size of a virtual desktop by myself when it gets created?
> This is needed by us because we don't want the entire area of the desktop
> to be virtual, instead a fixed size area of the desktop to be created
> through virtual desktops and remaining areas should be outside the control
> of FVWM and can be controlled by another utility(The idea here in is - We
> have a Single page HTML application which will cover the entire desktop
> area and part of it will be filled by the content of the virtual desktop).
> Please suggest any inputs from your end.

This sounds to me like an XY problem [0].  What is it you're trying to do?
You can't arbitrarily ask FVWM to create different virtual desktop sizes.
What you can do though is ask X11 to have a ViewPort size which would force
FVWM to pan around that, which might do what you want.

But why you wouldn't just use virtual desktops as-is and use the Scroll
command to pan around them, is beyond me.  I suspect you're over complicating
things.

-- Thomas Adam

[0] http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem