From: jimdu@comm.mot.com (Jim Duran)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: "paged" vs. panned virtual desktop
Date: 12 Oct 92 09:44:41 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector

Date: 9 Oct 92 21:34:13 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Oct9.213413.22998@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <43882@ogicse.ogi.edu>, jbthiel@ogicse.ogi.edu (John B. Thiel) writes:
|> 
|> Is there a window manager or other mechanism to effect a virtual
|> desktop that is "paged" rather than panned? The idea is to have
|> a control w/ eg. 3x3 boxes that represent 9 subdivisions of the virtual
|> desktop. Clicking one of the boxes displays the corresponding part of
|> the desktop on the physical screen. The pages should be continuous (ie.
|> a window could be between pages), and ideally the 3x3 array would reflect
|> in miniature the sizes and positions of all objects on the desktop.
|> 
|> I have tried ctwm, but its pages are discrete, and the control consists
|> only of colored buttons.
|> 
|> Any pointers appreciated.
|> 
|> 
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Yes, I believe that a window manager I use quite extensively would help you.

It's called tvtwm . If you are familiar with Tom's Window Manager (twm) it
is simply an extension which adds the virtual desktop and icon management
features.  I find it quite useful.  Here's a portion of it's man page:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

tvtwm - Tom's Virtual Tab Window Manager for the X Window System

tvtwm [-display dpy] [-s] [-f initfile] [-v]

Tvtwm is a window manager for the X Window System based
on the X11R4 version of twm.  It includes a ``Virtual Desktop''
feature that effectively makes the root window of the screen 
larger than the physical limits of the display.  To change 
as little as possible in this manual, from here on the window
manager is referred to as twm.

Twm is a window manager for the X Window System.  It provides 
titlebars, shaped windows,
several forms of icon management, user-defined macro functions, 
click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard focus, and user-specified 
key and pointer button bindings.

...

COPYRIGHT
Portions copyright 1988 Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation; portions
copyright 1989 Hewlett-Packard Company and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology,  See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

AUTHORS
Tom LaStrange, Solbourne Computer; Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium;
Steve Pitschke, Stardent Computer; Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium;
Dave Payne, Apple Computer.

Virtual Desktop added by Tom LaStrange, Solbourne Computer.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hope this helps,
Jim D.


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