Mark> I know, but you still have to remember what is open where.
Mark> With the cube, you can see everything in one go,
Er... You can see *all* six faces of a cube in a realistic 3D view at
once? And what if you have 10 virtual desks? How can they fit into a
cube?
Mark> pulling it around to the bit you want.
Pull? That requires energy.
My FvwmPager has been delivering me for 14 years what you said above:
showing a summary, eagle-ey view of all virtual desks at once.
Moreover, I don't even need to use the mouse to operate it: I can
switch desks easily using keyboard shortcuts -- thanks to the
flexibility of FVWM. (It could even be configured to pop up upon a
mouse click on the root window or any WM decorations.)
Forgotten which app is on which desk? No problem, I just look at
FvwmPager, and use the keyboard to switch to that desk and page. No
need to touch the mouse at all.
Mark> Because you can make it transparent, you can see
Mark> immediately.
I can also make the FvwmPager window transparent and "always on top"
with the help of xcompmgr and transset-df.
Mark> It's a completely different approach to virtual desktops
Mark> compared with the traditional linux method.
"Traditional"? The oldest WMs supporting virtual desks (olvwm, fvwm)
do offer a pager view that I mentioned above. You can see a
represention of what's on all your desks at once. It's so
disappointing that the recent eye-candiful, "use-friendly" WMs all
seem to follow the CDE approach an only offer a GUI button/menu for
changing desks; no summary window of what's on all the desks.
Mark> Windows, of course, has never even *had* virtual desktops or
Mark> a separate console...
Why compare a jet-plane with a horse-powered wagon?
>
> It runs okay, even on a weak machine. It's bizarre.
>
Mark> That is strange. Have you tried it with the cube?
Yes, I did. But I don't like it. It's impressive and eye-candiful.
But it's useless in terms of my productivity. It can't even compare
to FvwmPager.
And where is the config file of Compiz? What? It isn't just a text
file that I can edit with my favourite editor (Emacs), version-control
with my favourite VC software (RCS, CVS or SVN), and clone with a
simple 'cp' command, and back up with 'tar' + 'gzip'? No, thanks.
I'll stay with FVWM, which is so much more productive.
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Lee Sau Dan 李守敦 ~{@nJX6X~}
E-mail: danlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee
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