Re: continuum workspace : sawfish / edge-flipping

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello,

Rich Rudnick wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 09:45 +0000, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > thanks for your reply.
> >
> > Rich Rudnick wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, I meant to reply to the list :)
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 21:35 +0000, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello List
> > > >
> > > > A few years ego (Gnome 1.x ?), 
> > > > I was abble to to move any window from on workspace
> > > > to one of its nearest neighbours by handling it.
> > > > I cannot reproduce this on the current Gnome:
> > > > Has this feature been removed ?
> > > > If not, how can I get it back ?
> > >
> > >
> > > brightside adds this for the mouse (I tried it for a while); > >
> >
> > metacity
> >
> > > provides <shift><ctl><alt> and the cursor keys for moving windows
> > > between workspaces.
> >
> > I am using sawfish: do you meant that I may migrate from sawfish to
> > metacity or brightside ?
>
>
> It's been a while since I used sawfish, but I'd be astounded if edge
> flipping has been removed from it; take a look at .sawfishrc for an
> edge-flipping option. Someone here will probably pipe up with the exact
> option.

As a matter of fact,
I have a ~/.sawfish directory: the current version of sawfish must be newer.
Anyhow, I have no `edge-flipping' option in my ~/.sawfish/custom file:
may we put it by hand ?

Thanks,
Jerome

> Metacity is the default window manager for Gnome 2.x. It was written by
> Havoc Pennington originally (IIRC) as a proof of concept for his 'fewer
> options with better designer thinking about defaults equals better
> functionality' desktop philosophy. Other hackers have added extensions
> to scratch their itches; brightside is one of these, so you'd need
> both :)