Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 04 August 2016 17:13:15 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> John Hasler wrote:
> > There may be no such thing as a "right name" but there is such a thing
> > as a correct name in a technical discussion.
>
> Reading The Funderful Manual:
>
>   Fvwm provides both, a large virtual desktop and multiple disjoint
>   desktops which can be used separately or together.  The virtual desktop
>   allows you to pretend that your video screen is really quite large, and
>   you can scroll around within the desktop.  The multiple disjoint
>   desktops allow you to pretend that you really have several screens to
>   work at, but each screen is completely unrelated to the others.
>
>   [...]
>
>   The screen is a viewport onto a desktop which may be larger than the
>   screen. [...]
>   each desktop can be larger than the physical screen, divided into m by n
>   pages which are each the size of the physical screen [...]
>
> I understand that the New Revised debian-user Terminology translates
>
>   Workspace = Virtual desktop (one of multiple disjoint desktops)
>
>   Viewport = Page of a virtual desktop (actually one can let the screen
>              show neighboring parts of four pages)
>
> I own a single 4x2 pages sized workspace. In most cases i use stickiness
> and pager rather than dragging windows from page to page.
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas

Thanks, Thomas!!

Lisi