From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] other versions of 9wm In-Reply-To: <20030707221018.1294.qmail@mail.dirac.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:48:28 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed6e47e2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 the 'virtual desktop' business is the one that I'm most interested in having, though I haven't used any virtual desktops for the past year and a half (both in rio and in the 9wm that I use)... it's a pain on smaller screens... someday I'll hack 4 virtual desktops into Rio just to piss people enough so that they do it better on their own. no need for buttons and nice 'virtual console managers' -- take the fvwm approach and switch consoles by 'pressing' the mouse against the end of the screen in the direction of the console you want ;) there'll be flashy text indicating which console you've just switched to. the letters would fade slowly and elegantly. in fact, there _should_ be a virtual console manager present... maybe even two -- one at the top, one at the bottom, showing a minimized view of the screen (see the screenshot at: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/screenshots/scr-plan9.png we're half way there!) andrey