On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:24:01PM +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > Yep sorry ;) In fact I am really lost when we are talking of Region, > Viewport, Screens, Workspace and finally frame.
I don't think I can't explain it any better than it is already in the documentation, but I'll try: Region - it's just an abstract name for rectangular regions that may or may no have an X window associated to them. Viewport - They no longer exist. Screen - What used to be called viewports are now called screens. They are the regions of the root window corresponding to areas visible on physical screens. Xinerama screens share a root window, but note that parts of X unaware of such kludges consider screens and root windows to be the same thing. Workspace - is a collection of other regions, usually frames. Workspaces are regions that do not have an X window associated to them. (If they did, many other things would be a lot simpler, but any future stickiness support would be out of question because of the reparenting and stacking management madness.) Frame - Window manager frames are to client windows like physical frames are to paintings, except that Ion's frames can contain multiple client windows. -- Tuomo
