Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/11/2002 - 13:26. General Questions
Hello,
I would like to ask how can I enable in my .mwmrc a virtual desktop to split the screen in multiple
sections. Could you please point me to some documentation or HOWTO .
Thank you all,
stefan
PS I am using RedHat 7.2 and OpenMotif 2.2
I have found some old emails and some help.
anyway can I use mwm -multiscreen !?
stefan
"mwm -multiscreen" isn`t what you are looking for; that command-line instructs mwm explicitly to control all separate screens on a display. These usually correspond to physical monitors. The window manager then controls all screens.
It sounds like what you want is a "virtual window manager". You can use gwm in mwm emulation mode or fvwm2 in mwm emulation mode. You can also use the old mvwm (from 1.2) or the version of mwm from 2.0 (not 2.1) which supported multiple workspaces. The support was removed in Motif 2.1 and is not in Open Motif.
You`d probably be happiest with fvwm, which I believe is still under development.
Thank you for message.
Exactly -multiscreens points anyway to multiple physical monitors which I am not looking for.Yes indeed I was looking for a virtual windows manager.
I would like to stay with mwm from OpenMotif and
get a Virtual Windows manager.
how can I get "old mvwm" which has been removed cause a compatibility and needs with dtwm .How comes anyway then Under mwm OpenMotif we don`t have any virtual window manager ?
Is it a hard work to get running the old one ?
But why anyway there is not possibility to have multiple virtual screens manager with mwm.
stefan
Well, there`s a whole history there. When I leave out all the political machinations, it looks like this
Motif 1.2.3 was a stable version of Motif, and it was used as the basis for the CDE project. But at the same time, The Open Group was continuing development on Motif 2.0, which included a very ambitious multiple-workspaces version of mwm. (And, somewhere in there, I added vtwm`s multiple-window support to mwm and called the result mvwm.)
Then came the Great Uniting, in which the main-line Motif and CDE merged. The result is Motif 2.1.0 -- but that didn`t include the multiple-workspace support. (And someone upgraded mvwm to 2.0.)
But Motif 2.1.0 was not released; nor was 2.0. Nor was 1.2. So you can`t get the old "WSM" code, nor can you get sources to apply the mvwm changes (which are to an outdated version).
The result? No multiple workspaces. They could be added again to mwm, but I don`t know who would do the work.
Is there a chance to get this code so that I could at least try to put it back into mwm?
Hi,
It sounds really politic indeed. I want to be more practically
- is there any open source code that we can start to add support on it ?
- Is anything available from old WSM ?
- How hard would be to get incorporated under MWM 2.2 ?
At least if we would have the code maybe with some help we could start to have this started at least. I am an UNIX admin and Virtual Screen Manager is a MUST function for multiple screen using a one physical display.
On other hand is 2.2 OpenMotif stable release ?
I posted another thread asking something about a comparation and discussion made about OpenMotif 2.2 ? Some ideas guys ?
stefan
Stephan,
xdm `save yourself` isn`t well supported in free software - and mwm virtual screens isn`t here yet.
However - `gdm` has both already and is well supported.
I`ve heard both gnome and Motif have made allowances to work better with each other. Maybe that`s the way to go use gnome with mwm as your desktop manager - which works if it does have a few glitches.
On the other hand Solaris 8i has Motif with virtual desktops and I hear you can download the source now (I`m not sure that includes motif or other components).
Anyway, maybe you can download it and get ideas of how to re-hack mwm (the right way).
On the other hand - mwm does suport multiple display (not viewports - displays) and maybe that could be an easy hack. Map the mwm multiple display support onto managing a `virtual display` on a different Xt screen or something (maybe the `special` display could be told apart by a naming convention accessible through xrdb).
`gdm` might be the more practical approach for now )