readme.windowmanagers

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Window Manager Support
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All the window managers seem to have different terminology for what
they call virtual desktops/viewports/workspaces. The following is an
attempt to describe the various configurations and 3ddesktop's
support.

Quick setup
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If you have Gnome 1.x/2.x, KDE 3.x or Windowmaker you shouldn't need
to do anything.  If you have KDE 2.x, Fluxbox or Enlightenment use the
--wm arg indicated below for your setup (or "wm" option in .conf).

Details
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The wm option helps 3ddesktop do the right thing.  Without the option
it trys to guess the best mode.  There are other alternate options
which can directly specify the particular virtual desktop scheme you
are using (EWMH, Workspaces, Gnome, Kde etc) but using --wm is
recommended.

Redhat 8.0 uses GNOME 2.x and/or KDE 3.x.
Redhat 7.x uses GNOME 1.x and/or KDE 2.x.

GNOME 1.x:  --wm=gnome1

   In general you can have a grid of "areas" or "viewports" made up of
   some number of rows by some number of columns.  Then you can have
   "workspaces" which are some number of layers of these grids.  So if
   you have a 2x2 grid of areas and 2 workspaces you have 8 virtual
   desktops (4 areas per workspace times 2 workspaces).

   Right now 3ddesktop will display each row one after the other
   linearly for most "modes" except for "linear" which ironically is
   not really linear any more (more like planar or 2d).

   3ddesktop can be told to use the layered workspaces instead of the
   grid of areas with the command line option --workspaces instead of
   --wm=gnome1.  You can use 3ddesktop to switch between areas or you
   can use it to switch between workspaces but not both (not yet!).
   Things get weird if you use both.

   If you have the sawfish windowmanager this is what you want
   (probably).

GNOME 2.x:  --wm=gnome2

   GNOME 2 uses the EWMH standard (just like KDE 3).  Using EWMH is
   the default so --wm=gnome2 isn't strictly necessary.  This is what
   you want if you have the Metacity windowmanager.

KDE 2.x:  --wm=kde2

   KDE 2.x is supported.  Window managers that are "compatible" with
   KDE should work with this option as well!

KDE 3.x:  --wm=kde3

   KDE 3.x uses the same standard as GNOME 2 called EWMH so using
   --ewmh will work as well.

Enlightenment: --wm=enlightenment

   In Enlightenment, the workspaces are configured in the "Multiple
   Desktop Settings" dialog as layered virtual desktops.  You
   configure the areas as a grid in the "Virtual Desktop Settings"
   dialog.

   The virtual desktop scheme is identical to Gnome 1.x to my
   knowledge.  Use --workspaces instead of --wm=enlightenment if you'd
   like to use workspaces.

   It is recommended you turn off the "Slide desktops around when
   changing" option in Special FX Settings.  This has an unnatural
   effect when using 3ddesktop (thanks Nick!).

WindowMaker:  --wm=windowmaker

   WindowMaker only supports workspaces and calls them by the same
   name.  To my knowledge you can't do any kind of "area" or grid
   setup.  

     ** Make sure WindowMaker is compiled with the --enable-gnome
        switch if you are compiling it.

Sawfish:  --wm=sawfish

   In Sawfish you go to the configuration section called "Workspaces"
   and the grid size of the areas is specified with the columns and
   rows values.

Fluxbox:  --wm=fluxbox

   Uses the EWMH standard but fluxbox 0.1.14 does not update the X
   atoms that contain the virtual desktop count info.  Download the
   following patch for fluxbox to fix this.

     http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/dl/fluxbox-0.1.14-workspace.patch