Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!ub!boulder!grunwald From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X marks the suit Message-ID: <24339@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 4 Aug 90 22:50:11 GMT References: <9008031720.AA08100@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <9008040324.AA08838@efbhp1.draper.com> <24334@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Lines: 15 In-reply-to: montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com's message of 4 Aug 90 17:32:52 GMT From my brief use of 'xrooms', you could associate items with specific named ``rooms'' and open or close a given room. Virtual desktop are a flat area overwhich you can pan your display. A top-level ``virtual desktop manager'' shows you the entire virtual desktop, allowing you to pick up windows in the VTM and move them around. You can also pick up windows in the regular old TWM kind of way. This, it's a little easier for people to understand, although not really as useful as ``xrooms'' becausey you have to make a spatial association with the different windows, not a logical ones. I found that I made spatial relationships to model the logical ones (i.e. I'd keep all windows related to something in one area. I could as easily use room names).