Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >1. now u have to MOVE windows insdtead of show/hide - this is less efficient >and causes more exposes and excess draws. 2. because of icccm and reparenting >windows - moving a window with a desk switch creates lots of complications for >apps that like to remeber their own geometry and restore it - if they exist >while off screen (as they then believe they should start up at co-ordinates >-3000, -1000 for example). 3. this makes descisions as to which desktop a >window belongs to much harder as when does it change from belonging form one >desk to another? you now have to put this logic in - everywhere 4. this makes >shutdown and startup more complex as the wm has to move all widnows back to the >current screen to avoid them possiblyt being lost 5. this is very hard to have >BOTH methods (show+hide vs move) for how to handle desktop changes within the >same code as they are quite different. > > > And wouldn't it possible to just consider to have a larger virtual desktop, with windows in a fixed position, so that moving around the desktops would mean to move the coordinates of the on-screen real desktop (and not to move the windows) ? I actually assumed that it was what was performed by fvwm2 in the (so old ?) time I used it - as you were able to move everywhere in the virtual desktop, and not only to slide by an integer number of screen size. Is there a kind of functionality (directly from X server ?) that would allow to have absolute coordinates for windows, with the possibility to actually represent them with relative coordinates (i.e. absolute coordinates + tunable offset) ?
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