On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 17:17 +0000, Paul Beardsell wrote: > If I wanted > an app's display to open on a particular workspace on a monitor I could do > so by specifying '-display xxxx:0.3' or to choose a particular monitor I > could use '-display xxxx:3'. We miss a trick or two now. And whereas > implmentation details are left unspecified the intention is clear. Where > and when do we get the opportunity to use anything other than :0.0 on a > modern Linux box, now?
I would like you to know that multiple X servers on a single box are used heavily in enterprise and academic installations to run thin X clients, and multi-screen X servers (not Xinerama) are used to provide multiple consoles on a single desktop computer in many educational installations as well as a few home installations I've seen. Please don't knock off existing functionality just because you don't understand what it is used for - it is often there to provide for a legitimate need that cannot be satisfied otherwise, even if you have not personally have required it. > If that was sorted then this bug would not exist in > its current form i.e. with a workaround simply being to disable Compiz. I don't agree, and I think the implementation details for workspace management and paging should stay firmly inside a specific WM's implementation. I might be a good idea to specify a freedesktop.org API for pagers to talk to window managers, but if you've hardcoded in a spec how workspaces should be implemented then a lot of cool things like GNOME Shell's dynamic workspaces wouldn't happen (or be so much harder to implement). -- Oded Arbel <o...@geek.co.il> -- Can't drag a window to another workspace https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
