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Bug 602135 - Add support for compiz' viewports
Add support for compiz' viewports
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
: 640521 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-16 20:21 UTC by Mirco Müller
Modified: 2018-01-24 13:48 UTC
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Description Mirco Müller 2009-11-16 20:21:01 UTC 
At the moment libwnck does not suppor compiz' concept of viewports (one workspace split across many viewports). Only metacity's workspace-concept is supported (multiple workspaces). In order to increase the wm-abstraction value of libwnck, which is its main purpose of existence imo, is to add the ability to deal with compiz' viewports and metacity's workspaces in a transparent fashion for application developers using libwnck.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2009-11-16 20:28:21 UTC 
Viewport support already exists. But indeed, there's no API to "understand" the viewport when it's used for workspaces.

I had a patch for this a few years ago, but never completed it, fwiw.
Comment 2 Marcus Carlson 2009-11-16 20:33:04 UTC 
Yep, I've got a backup of that patch somewhere if you're interested.
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2009-11-16 22:47:06 UTC 
sure would save everyone a lot of pain to just fix compiz ... before compiz we'd successfully gotten metacity, kwin, and I think several other major WMs to all work the same way (with workspaces). I still don't agree there are any features that are fundamentally impossible to implement with workspaces, esp. with a CM involved not just a WM. Having two implementations here is just a giant PITA for everyone.
Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2011-02-01 00:45:20 UTC 
*** Bug 640521 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Andrew Zabolotny 2011-02-01 21:13:09 UTC 
Then maybe bug #640520 is also somehow related to this?
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 13:48:01 UTC 
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