Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 02/24/2001 - 20:13. Developers
Does anyone here know where I can find some documentation on workspace control? I haven`t been able to find an mwm pager app so I thought I`d try to build one, but I can`t find any documentation on how workspace switching works.
Mon, 07/02/2012 - 12:28
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pager app help
Hi,
The workspace manager function was introduced in Motif 2.0 and removed from Motif 2.1. I believe the logic was that workspace is the domain of the desktop. Hence you see equivalent functionality in CDE, Gnome, and KDE.
Regards,
Mark
It`s part of Motif 2.0, but not part of 2.1. In any case, that technology hit a dead end, and unless you`re using 2.0 already you should probably use software that is still being developed.
Generally, workspace management is accomplished through the setting of properties on the top-level windows; the window manager cooperates with an external agent, if necessary, to manage window-related events such as mapping and iconification.
Thanks for the replys guys. I would have replied to you sooner to thank you but I`ve been locked out of my account for the last 3 days. Anyway, I have kind of gathered that if I want to do this thing, then, without GTK or Qt, it`ll have to be with Xlib, right? Any pointers on where to look for documentation for how to change between root windows? So far I have the Xlib manuals from O`Reilly and code from the XFCE pager.