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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:41:53 -0800
From:      George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com>
To:        Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No workspaces for sawfish ?
Message-ID:  <15986.5217.802529.522590@rosebud.alerce.com>
In-Reply-To: <799555621@toto.iv>

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Heinrich Rebehn writes:
 > Hi
 > 
 > I use the sawfish window manager under FreeBSD after having used it under Linux. 
 > I found that the the FreeBSD port is lacking the ability to configure the number 
 > of workspaces. The Linux Version of sawfish is 1.01 and the FreeBSD version is 
 > 1.2. Is this specific to FreeBSD?

I'm not sure what you're seeing.  There were some changes in sawfish
vis-a-vis viewports and workspaces, but I'm able to add and/or delete
workspaces by running sawfish-ui and selecting the workspaces tab.

I have this package:

  sawfish2-1.2,2      Lisp configurable window manager

installed on a laptop running this:

  FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p7

One feature that I used to do via viewports was having a 2x2 grid of
"desktops" that I could move between by sliding the mouse off of one
edge of the screen.  I needed to do enable edge-flipping "by-hand" by
adding

  (require 'sawfish.wm.ext.edge-flip)

to my .sawfishrc, then configuring stuff in the 'Edge Flipping'
sub-tab of the Workspaces tab.

I also configured the Workspace Switcher panel thingy to show the
workspaces in a 2x2 grid and I was back in business.

g.


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