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Re: X11 wm that is also a WinXP virtual desktop manager?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:03:28 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: X11 wm that is also a WinXP virtual desktop manager?
- References: <20050323192551.22067.qmail@web51805.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Trebor Sreyb wrote:
> I'm curious if there are any cygwin X11 window
> managers that also work as a true 'virtual desktop
> manager' in Windows 2000/XP/etc.
>
> This model would maintain separate MS-Windows desktops
> containing native windows applications and taskbar
> icons. It is similar to, for example, separate
> workspaces in windowmaker, but it applies to the
> Windows XP desktop rather than X apps.
>
> This type of software exists (MS has their own
> freebee, in fact). But it appears the X11 Window
> managers that have been ported to cygwin only create
> an X11 desktop that manage X applications only.
To my knowledge ther is only one windowmager which handles windows
as native windows and this window manager does has no virtual desktop
support.
bye
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