Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 73199
RFE: no virtual screens and workspaces aren't enough
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: RFE: Virtual screens in window manager, metacity or otherwise. I have been unable to find a good way (i.e. not gconf editor) to change my window manager to test if current sawfish supports virtual screens. Alternatively, workspaces could allow moving and stretching apps across workspaces, and scrolling with mouse between workspaces. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.use metacity as wm 2. 3. Additional info: We've had virtual screens in fvwm, fvwm2, afterstep, window maker, ..., sawfish. It's cruel to take them away now with metacity. If sawfish still supports them, that's fine -- but where is something like the old gnome control panel with an option to change your wm?
If this happens it will be on the gnome.org level, not the Red Hat level. It's already been much-rehashed though and most likely the answer is that viewports will not be in metacity, but may be in other WMs. A WM-switching UI can't be in the default typical-user-visible control panels because it's a good way for them to break their desktop; if gnome.org adds an "advanced power user tweak" tool like Windows XP TweakUI, then it might have it. (In the meantime it's easy to switch, just kill current WM, run your other WM, then gnome-session-save.) WONTFIX because this is best handled upstream not by Red Hat.