Re: problem with edge flipping

["Eric Mangold" <teratorn world-net net>]

> I searched the archives and found no reference to this, so:
>
> I have the following in my .sawfishrc
>
> (require 'sawfish.wm.ext.edge-flip)
> (define-special-variable edge-flip-enabled t
>    "Select the next desktop when the pointer hits screen edge.")
> (define-special-variable edge-flip-type 'viewport
>    "Control what hitting the screen edge selects, workspace or viewport.")
> (define-special-variable edge-flip-only-when-moving nil
>    "Only flip when interactively moving a window.")
> (define-special-variable edge-flip-delay 300
>    "Milliseconds to delay before edge flipping.")
>
> but moving the cursor does not flip to the next viewport. I have keys
> bound to
> do this, and they work fine. I can get edge flipping to work by entering
> sawfish-ui (which shows edge-flip-only-when-moving as being turned off)
> and
> setting edge-flip-only-when-moving to on and then back to off. The problem
> returns when I restart sawfish.
>
> I'm using v 1.3 from the debian testing repository. The problem exists
> running
> under both XFree86-4.3.0.1 and Xorg-6.8.2. Is this a known problem? Is
> there a
> workaround? I was thinking that I could run a script through
> sawfish-client, but
> I can't figure out how to access the variable.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh

Do you have the same problems flipping between workspaces instead of
viewports?

-Eric