[compiz] Correcting the number of virtual desktops

Kristian Lyngstøl kristian at bohemians.org
Sun Nov 18 14:14:47 PST 2007


On Nov 18, 2007 11:04 PM, Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring at web.de> wrote:
> > You have 4 viewports (probably for cube). So 2 workspaces each with 4
> > viewports is 8 and so on.
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> Would you like to suggest any further references for the relationship between
> viewports and workspaces?

You can read about large desktop in the EWMH. The essence of it is that with
workspaces, the content of other workspaces is unavailable (Thus making, for
instance, cube a bit difficult). So Compiz essentially operates on one big
workspace/desktop, but splits it into several smaller viewports.

So the math for total number of viewports is: vertical resolution * horizontal
resolution * number of desktops.

- Kristian


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