Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stan!marvin!toml From: toml@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: mwm with virtual desktop? Message-ID: Date: 1 May 91 14:37:07 GMT References: <9105011305.AA14350@progress.odi.com> Sender: toml@solbourne.com (Tom LaStrange) Distribution: inet Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc. Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: bob@odi.com's message of 1 May 91 13:05:59 GMT > Has there been any hint that OSF will be adding a virtual desktop > to mwm in the future, as in vtwm, tvtwm and swm? It would seem a > sensible thing to do, assuming there aren't any legal complications. If somebody does this please consider doing it with a seperate virtual root window rather than moving all the windows around ala vtwm and olvwm. IMHO it's the right way to do this and makes panning the desktop MUCH cleaner and faster. I'm somewhat biased, but even the author of vtwm now agrees that the tvtwm approach is the way to do this. Yes, fewer clients break with the vtwm/olwvm approach, but moving the windows around is simply working around a problem rather than trying to solve it. Once again, IMHO. Now let's see, where's my source to mwm... -- (I kid you not)Tom LaStrange toml@Solbourne.COM