Window managers alternatives (was Re: [svlug] StarOFfice to be GPL'd...)

[J C Lawrence]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 16:54:45 -0700 
kmself  <kmself at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> While there's not standard pager, you can hotkey through
> workspaces with <alt>-#, where "#" is number corresponding to
> workspace.  Detachable menus include a workspaces menu which can
> be left active on the screen.  Not sure about third-party pagers,
> though the Gnome pager does IIRC work.

One thing I find curious: With the exception of Enlightenment, it
seems that none of the "new" rash of window managers supports a page
that provides an overview of the virtual desktop pages (so you can
see what's on them), yet most of the older window managers, eg FVWM,
explicitly support overview pagers.  Why the difference?  (aside:
Gnome appears to support this as a third party app in relation to
the WM, but that's not what I'm talking about, especially for the
non-Gnome window managers).

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