[Wylug-help] Re: cygwin and virtual desktops

[Simon Wood]

Hi Dave,
Don't know for certain if this will help/do what you want, but there is a Cygwin XFCE port. XFCE has funky virtual windows so maybe this carries across to cygwin.

See:
http://www.oliwen.com/bamanzi/cygwin/xfce4/

Simon.



On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:01:10 +0000
Dave Fisher <davef at gbdirect.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:35:07AM +0000, Dave Fisher wrote:
> >  ... nothing at all.
>
> but I was about to ask if anyone could advise me on the feasibility of
> having multiple virtual desktops on Windows via cygwin.
>
> I might be imagining this, but I seen to remember using an earlier
> incarnation of cygwin with WindowMaker to get the much desired X
> desktops.
>
> I notice that cygwin now uses the Widows window manager for x sessions.
> Does this preclude virtual desktops entirely, or could I re-configure it
> to use a traditional X window manager and get the desktops that way?
>
> The Cygwin X documentation is somewhat brief and confesses to be out of
> date.  Anyone know any better?
>
> Dave
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