On Thursday 04 August 2016 17:13:15 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > John Hasler wrote: > > There may be no such thing as a "right name" but there is such a thing > > as a correct name in a technical discussion. > > Reading The Funderful Manual: > > Fvwm provides both, a large virtual desktop and multiple disjoint > desktops which can be used separately or together. The virtual desktop > allows you to pretend that your video screen is really quite large, and > you can scroll around within the desktop. The multiple disjoint > desktops allow you to pretend that you really have several screens to > work at, but each screen is completely unrelated to the others. > > [...] > > The screen is a viewport onto a desktop which may be larger than the > screen. [...] > each desktop can be larger than the physical screen, divided into m by n > pages which are each the size of the physical screen [...] > > I understand that the New Revised debian-user Terminology translates > > Workspace = Virtual desktop (one of multiple disjoint desktops) > > Viewport = Page of a virtual desktop (actually one can let the screen > show neighboring parts of four pages) > > I own a single 4x2 pages sized workspace. In most cases i use stickiness > and pager rather than dragging windows from page to page. > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas
Thanks, Thomas!! Lisi
