Lisi writes: > No, it wasn't. I said and meant "desktop", otherwise known as > workspace.
Ok, but that is confusing when discussing FVWM. > If you say that the OP, who uses FVWM, said workspace and meant > viewport, I cannot argue, since you obviously know FVWM, and I don't. I've been using FVWM for about twenty years. As David says, each FVWM desktop (sometimes called a workspace) is a separate X display. Getting windows from one to another is, in my experience, not possible. A desktop can be much larger than the physical screen: it's a virtual screen. The viewport is properly the physical screen and can be moved around the desktop smoothly or in steps. It is common to divide each desktop into panes (sometimes confusingly called viewports, workspaces, or even desktops) and arrange for the viewport to "snap" from one pane to the next. Thus the viewport is often a porthole into a large virtual screen. Some programs may be using the wrong mapping request so that the window is located relative to the virtual screen rather than the physical one. This is a bug, of course, but you won't see it if your virtual screen equals the physical screen, as is the usual case with most window managers. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
