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

[John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>]

Lisi writes:
> No, it wasn't.   I said and meant "desktop", otherwise known as
> workspace.

Ok, but that is confusing when discussing FVWM.

> If you say that the OP, who uses FVWM, said workspace and meant
> viewport, I cannot argue, since you obviously know FVWM, and I don't.

I've been using FVWM for about twenty years.  As David says, each FVWM
desktop (sometimes called a workspace) is a separate X display.  Getting
windows from one to another is, in my experience, not possible.  A
desktop can be much larger than the physical screen: it's a virtual
screen.  The viewport is properly the physical screen and can be moved
around the desktop smoothly or in steps.  It is common to divide each
desktop into panes (sometimes confusingly called viewports, workspaces,
or even desktops) and arrange for the viewport to "snap" from one pane
to the next.  Thus the viewport is often a porthole into a large virtual
screen. Some programs may be using the wrong mapping request so that the
window is located relative to the virtual screen rather than the
physical one.  This is a bug, of course, but you won't see it if your
virtual screen equals the physical screen, as is the usual case with
most window managers.
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John Hasler 
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Elmwood, WI USA