Re: extended window manager hints
Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
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On 2008-05-30, Jordan Sissel <[email protected]> wrote: > Does ion-3 support any of the documented ways of expressing the number > of available desktops (workspaces, whatever you want to call them)? RTFFAQ. The workspace properties of EWMH don't map nicely into Ion's way of handling them. > extended wm hints spec, but it seems like ion claims that > _NET_VIRTUAL_ROOTS is supported. Leftover from Xinerama hacks. > xprop(1) shows: > _ION_WORKSPACE(STRING) = "WGroupWS<1>" It's the (internal) name of the currently selected region within the mutually exclusive list of the screen. It can be also a client window, and is therefore very dynamic, whereas EWMH properties are geared towards a static set of traditional workspaces. -- Tuomo