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Window Manager Support
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All the window managers seem to have different terminology for what
they call virtual desktops/viewports/workspaces. The following is an
attempt to describe the various configurations and 3ddesktop's
support.
Quick setup
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If you have Gnome 1.x/2.x, KDE 3.x or Windowmaker you shouldn't need
to do anything. If you have KDE 2.x, Fluxbox or Enlightenment use the
--wm arg indicated below for your setup (or "wm" option in .conf).
Details
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The wm option helps 3ddesktop do the right thing. Without the option
it trys to guess the best mode. There are other alternate options
which can directly specify the particular virtual desktop scheme you
are using (EWMH, Workspaces, Gnome, Kde etc) but using --wm is
recommended.
Redhat 8.0 uses GNOME 2.x and/or KDE 3.x.
Redhat 7.x uses GNOME 1.x and/or KDE 2.x.
GNOME 1.x: --wm=gnome1
In general you can have a grid of "areas" or "viewports" made up of
some number of rows by some number of columns. Then you can have
"workspaces" which are some number of layers of these grids. So if
you have a 2x2 grid of areas and 2 workspaces you have 8 virtual
desktops (4 areas per workspace times 2 workspaces).
Right now 3ddesktop will display each row one after the other
linearly for most "modes" except for "linear" which ironically is
not really linear any more (more like planar or 2d).
3ddesktop can be told to use the layered workspaces instead of the
grid of areas with the command line option --workspaces instead of
--wm=gnome1. You can use 3ddesktop to switch between areas or you
can use it to switch between workspaces but not both (not yet!).
Things get weird if you use both.
If you have the sawfish windowmanager this is what you want
(probably).
GNOME 2.x: --wm=gnome2
GNOME 2 uses the EWMH standard (just like KDE 3). Using EWMH is
the default so --wm=gnome2 isn't strictly necessary. This is what
you want if you have the Metacity windowmanager.
KDE 2.x: --wm=kde2
KDE 2.x is supported. Window managers that are "compatible" with
KDE should work with this option as well!
KDE 3.x: --wm=kde3
KDE 3.x uses the same standard as GNOME 2 called EWMH so using
--ewmh will work as well.
Enlightenment: --wm=enlightenment
In Enlightenment, the workspaces are configured in the "Multiple
Desktop Settings" dialog as layered virtual desktops. You
configure the areas as a grid in the "Virtual Desktop Settings"
dialog.
The virtual desktop scheme is identical to Gnome 1.x to my
knowledge. Use --workspaces instead of --wm=enlightenment if you'd
like to use workspaces.
It is recommended you turn off the "Slide desktops around when
changing" option in Special FX Settings. This has an unnatural
effect when using 3ddesktop (thanks Nick!).
WindowMaker: --wm=windowmaker
WindowMaker only supports workspaces and calls them by the same
name. To my knowledge you can't do any kind of "area" or grid
setup.
** Make sure WindowMaker is compiled with the --enable-gnome
switch if you are compiling it.
Sawfish: --wm=sawfish
In Sawfish you go to the configuration section called "Workspaces"
and the grid size of the areas is specified with the columns and
rows values.
Fluxbox:
Works fine with fluxbox 0.9.9 I am told.
Last I checked myself was with fluxbox 0.1.14. It did not update
the X atoms that contain the virtual desktop count info. For that
release I made the patch below which is probably not necessary for
the latest fluxbox.
http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/dl/fluxbox-0.1.14-workspace.patch
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