Re: How to tell the difference between a minimize and a switch desktop?

["Freddie Unpenstein" <fredderic excite com>]

From: "Rorschach" , 28/10/2008:

> I discovered exactly the same odd behavior like you did: http://rorschachstagebuch.wordpress.com/..... !
> changed_mask always gets the value GDK_WINDOW_STATE_ICONIFIED when switching the desktop.
> I also asked here but nobody answered me... Did really noone ever code a trayicon which minimzed to tray?
> If you come up with any workaround or just an idea please tell me!

That's perfectly normal behaviour.  There are three ways to manage multiple workspaces;

1) Use multiple X servers, and use Alt-F# to switch between them.  No dragging or moving applications between 
workspaces without some heavy lifting under the hood (xmove can do that, I believe).

2) Make one really huge screen and scroll around it.  I used to use that mode a lot about 10 years ago, but 
some programs go and open their windows at screen size, rather than display size, so you end up with an 
application window that you have to scroll around to see it all (a 3200x1200 window on an 800x600 monitor is 
somewhat annoying).  I suspect this is the main reason WMs don't do it that way any more, though it was handy 
to be able to open a window on whichever workspace you wanted just by adding the display dimensions to the 
geometry specification.

3) Unmap any windows that aren't on the "current workspace".  This is the normal method, and the behaviour 
you are observing.  It also makes it really easy to have a window be on multiple workspaces simultaneously.


Fredderic


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