Switching between virtual desktops

[Maarten Maathuis]

I see problems.

- You are potentially flooding applications with map/unmap requests
(due to the virtual desktop switching), but let's assume you have a
custom window manager which doesn't do that.

- How will you ever get something async like the X protocol to
synchronize with this external hardware?

- Virtual desktops belong to a single user, how do you expect them to
behave nicely for multiple users?

- What about the mouse pointer, isn't it kind of expensive/slow to
render many software cursors on an old system?

- What happens to refresh rate?


Maarten.