Fw: [ale] desktop size

MetroBoy metroboy at sprynet.com
Sun Jun 27 15:54:48 EDT 1999


> Also, some wms (fvwm for sure, others?) have an "edge viscosity"
> setting that affects how the mouse pointer acts at the edge of
> a virtual desktop. If you set it low, mousing off the edge of
> the screen will flip you to the next virtual desktop; set it
> high enough and the mouse can't force a desktop switch - you
> have to use the pager. It sounds like the behavior you describe
> might result from too low a setting for this parameter. For
> what it's worth, in .fvwmrc the parameter is called
> EdgeResistance.

Ahhhhhh!  This is what I was talking about.  But I'm not used to the
pager and don't want to use it, so I'm going to try to turn it off.

Ed






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