Re: GNOME+Sawmill workspaces

[Jim Lisi <jlisi@mirtig.ca>]

Ed Cogburn wrote:
> 
> Francesco Bochicchio wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:32:40 Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >       I have GNOME and Sawmill/Sawfish (latest debs from potato/woody) and
> > > I want to have 4 workspaces in a horizontal row.  The GNOME pager
> > > works as I want it to, except that Sawmill allows moving the cursor to
> > > the top or bottom of the screen as a way to change workspaces just
> > > like moving the cursor to the left or right side of the screen, where
> > > top=left and bottom=right.  I want it to not allow changing workspaces
> > > by using the top and bottom of the screen so I can use Gnome's toolbar
> > > along the bottom of the screen with auto-hide on without any annoying
> > > interaction.  Does anyone know if this can be done?
> > >
> >
> > Run sawmill-ui (sawdust-ui ?)  Select Edge Flipping. Disable "Flip to next
> > viewport ...."
> >
> > I run sawmill 0.21 which is a bit newer of the version in potato. Hope the
> > option is already there.
> 
>         That option stops all edge flipping, not just the flipping from the
> top or bottom of the screen.  Having seen this option though, its
> obvious what I'm looking for hasn't been implemented.  Guess I'll have
> to wait.  Thanks.

select "flip viewport" not "flip workspace".
then set the min horizontal viewport size to 4.
presto!
(at least with my version, potato test cycle 2)
(the edge flipping menu may only be on the mouse popup menu)

Jim