Re: Drag windows across workspaces

["Jonathan Koren" <jonathankoren hotmail com>]

You might be refering to viewports.  Viewports still exist in sawfish, 
they're just disabled by default since GNOME 2.0 decided that viewports 
should be eliminated in favor of "virtual desktops" aka "workspaces".  
Viewports are like workspaces, except windows can span multiple viewports.

To enable viewports, add these lines to ~/.sawfishrc:
(setq customize-command-classes '(default viewport))
(setq viewport-dimensions '(3 . 3))

and add this line to ~/.sawfish/custom:
(custom-set-typed-variable (quote match-window-profile) (quote ((((WM_NAME . 
"^panel$")) (sticky-viewport . #t) (cycle-skip . #t) (window-list-skip . #t) 
(skip-tasklist . #t)))) (quote match-window) (quote 
sawfish.wm.ext.match-window))


You can use viewports and workspaces simultaneously.  Viewports fit inside 
workspaces.  My setup uses two workspaces, each with a 3 by 3 grid of 
viewports.  Windows can be moved among the viewports just by dragging, but 
to switch workspaces I have to use the 'send to next workspace' item off the 
window's control menu.

FWIW sawfish-pager properly shows the boundaries of viewports and 
workspaces.  gnome-pager only shows the workspace boundaries (or at least 
that's how it worked last time I checked).


> From: "Eric Mangold" <teratorn world-net net>
> To: Brian <oldminer gmail com>, sawfish-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Drag windows across workspaces
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:34:03 +1100
>
> Try adding this to your sawfish RC file (~/.sawfish/rc for me):
>
> (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 'workspace
>                             "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.")
>
>
> Let us know if that's all it takes...
>
> -Eric Mangold
>
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:32:11 +1100, Brian <oldminer gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >    In times long past, I had a sawfish installation that came with
> > Gnome, back when Gnome did such things, which had an option under
> > sawfish-ui to allow dragging of windows off of an edge of a workspace
> > and onto another workspace.  I've grown quite accustomed to this
> > behavior.  Unfortunately, this install of sawfish broke, and I was
> > forced to reinstall from source.  After compiling from CVS (retrieved
> > via:
> >
> > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome co sawfish
> >
> > ) , I find this option no longer exists in sawfish-ui.  Has this
> > option been nixed?  Hidden?  Does it require some underlying support
> > from Gnome (?!) that has since vanished?  Have I gotten the wrong CVS?
> >    Much thanks for any assistance that might be rendered.
> >
> > -Brian

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