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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9con in Madrid?
Date: Wed,  7 Dec 2005 20:39:46 +0000
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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> To switch desktops just
> hide all the windows on the current desktop and
> unhide the ones on the new desktop.

one problem with this approach, at least with the current rio:

there's no way, as far as i'm aware, of determining the current
z-order of rio windows, so hiding and then unhiding a set of windows
is likely to alter this.  this could perhaps be fixed by getting rio
to remember the z-order of hidden windows and readjusting when
unhiding. (it'd be nice if it maintained this order when windows
resized themselves too).

after a little inspection of rio code, i can't see an obvious way
of doing this (perhaps a call to topnwindows inside wctlmesg?).

before spending any more time, does the approach seem reasonable?

incidentally, i encountered a tiny little bug in rio on the way; try:

	for(i in /dev/wsys/*){echo bottom > $i/wctl}

rio gets confused about the z-order of the windows.
i think this is probably fixed by changing:

		w->topped = 0;

in wbottomme() to

		w->topped = - (++ topped);

although i haven't checked it.