Re: Window Manager configuration utilities

["Bradley T. Hughes" <bhughes tcac net>]

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:

> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:38:49 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna@total.net>
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> Subject: Re: Window Manager configuration utilities
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> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Nathan Clemons wrote:
> 
> > I disagree. For those window managers which implement virtual desktops as
> > different screens :0.0, :0.1, etc. their config tool could have a method
> > to set backgrounds based on the workspace. I do not believe GNOME has this
> > functionality, and it should be left to the WM config tool to handle. And
> > considering that background images are set by a majority of themes, I
> > think this is the easiest way.
> > 
> 
> What WM does this? This is broken behavior and such WM's are utterly
> unusable on anything but a limited range of machines bearing only one
> screen at a time :-(

blackbox does :)

> In any case, I believe the discussion on config. tools clearly brings us
> out of the limits of the purposes set of this list.
> 
> Cristian
> 
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Bradley T. Hughes <bhughes@tcac.net>