On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Philip S Tellis wrote:
Sometime on Aug 2, Mayuresh A Kathe assembled some asciibets to say:
Workspace - Literally what it means, a Work Space Viewport - A view into a piece of data stored on your system Desktop - The area of the screen (usually) visible to you for
I want to know the difference between these three with relation to window managers. In sawfish, one can have multiple workspaces, and
Quoting from the GNOME manual (you don't have the manual?):
Most window managers will give you the option of having multiple desktops, which are different from desktop areas. Desktop areas are virtual extensions of one desktop whereas multiple desktops are actually separate.
The default setup of GNOME is to use desktop areas with only one desktop. The reason for this is with some applications, such as those which use Motif, users can experience problems with some drap and drop functionality across desktops.
I suggest you install the GNOME manual.
Manish J.