Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!murthy From: murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: vtwm disappointment Message-ID: <44970@cornell.UUCP> Date: 27 Aug 90 17:29:48 GMT References: <1990Aug24.145627@de5.ORNL.GOV> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Ithaca NY Lines: 27 tomw@orac.esd.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein) writes: >In article <1990Aug24.145627@de5.ORNL.GOV>, de5@de5.ctd.ORNL.GOV (SILL D E) writes: >> I finally got my hands on a workstation, hurredly built R4, fetched >> twm, patched it, fired it up, and...hey, how come I can't move windows >> into and out of the Virtual Desktop? Is anyone planning on adding that >> capability? It's way outa my league. >> -- >> Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) >> Martin Marietta Energy Systems >> Workstation Support >You are probably doing a NoDefaults at the top of your .twmrc. This >removes the default bindings for the Virtual Desktop. If you take it >out, it should fix your problem. I haven't got a "NoDefaults" in my .twmrc, and I can't do it, either. I think what Tom is referring to is the inability to drag a window off the screen, and have your mouse warped into the virtual desktop, with the window shrunk in the right position. Dually, the ability to drag a window from somewhere on the virtual desktop into the area circumscribed by the "real desktop rectangle", and have your mouse warped onto the real screen, with the real window. --chet--