On 02/26/2018 12:12 PM, Curt wrote:
On 2018-02-26, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:Ahh, but a Flocken Elektrowagen might today may be more functional in some circumstances than a Rolls Royce.http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/programming/useful/fvwm/index.html
((yes)^((YES)^((*YES*)^(1000))))http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/programming/useful/fvwm/viewports/index.html *EXPLICITLY* states what I could only infer. It also suggests that if I replace whatever window manager MATE uses with fvwm I can have the good parts of MATE (its familiarity) and the environmental separation I've been chasing. I.E. "I can have my cake and eat it too!"
I only read the nice discussion of "Viewports & Workspaces"; it doesn't tell you how to do anything (that's elsewhere), but does clarify the terminology. Maybe somebody already gave you this link (excuse the redundancy if that's so). Actually I kind of want a viewport now for myself (I mean one greater than the physical size of my screen--for the moment it is *exactly* the size of my physical screen (because I don't really have one really I guess).