Re: extended window manager hints

Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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Tuomo
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