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Re: sawfish workspace movement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 30 14:52:43 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Cana Lynn McCoy <cana@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 30 Jun 2003 14:52:39 -0400
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 13:59, Cana Lynn McCoy wrote:
> In previous Athena releases, I believe there was an option in the sawfish
> config, possibly under miscellaneous, that asked whether you should cycle
> around to your first workspace when you try to move past your last one.
The code still seems to be present, but the UI to configure it has been
removed, and the variables have changed from defcustoms to defvars. I
*think* that means that if you set them previously using the UI, those
settings won't work any more; instead, you have to set them in
~/.sawfish/rc instead, with something like:
(setq workspace-boundary-mode 'wrap-around)
(setq workspace-send-boundary-mode 'keep-going)
The first variable affects what happens when you try to move past the
first or last workspace; the second affects what happens when you try to
move a window past the first or last workspace. The possible values are
'stop, 'wrap-around, and 'keep-going.
I cannot find any public statement from the sawfish maintainer about why
this option went away. CVS logs indicate that it disappeared during a
large purge of user options, so I suspect it was just deemed unworthy of
having a user-visible configuration knob.
