[lug] Gnome workspace navigation. Was show desktop

[Gary Hodges]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 14:24, Gary Hodges wrote:
> > With an older version of Gnome I was able to set up a key sequence to
> > move between different workspaces.  Ctrl -> would move me to the
> > workspace on the right for example.  With newer versions of Gnome I have
> > never been able to do this.  I also can't drag windows between spaces
> > the way I want.  I use four workspaces:
> >
> > 1  2
> > 3  4
> >
> > I can't drag a window from 4 to 2.  It forces me to drag it through 3
> > first.  With an older Gnome version, I could drag a window from 4 to 2.
> > Am I missing something here?  Its been several months, but I spent a
> > long time one afternoon looking at the config setup without any luck.
> >
> 
> In older versions of gnome there were the concepts of the viewport and
> the workspace.  A workspace could be subdivided into 4 viewports and you
> could edge flip and drag to different viewports.  In the gnome that
> ships with Redhat 8 (gnome 2 in general I think), the viewports are
> gone.  You only have workspaces and you can't drag easily (it seems like
> there were some hacks that I found googl'ing but it didn't seem worth
> the effort).  Lack of edge flipping and window dragging in gnome is a
> deal breaker for me, so I use AfterStep.

Thanks for the reply.  Been out sick and am just now reading it.  I
guess I have gotten mostly used to not having that dragging feature, but
I still miss it.  I could get around it if I could just get the key
bindings to work at all.  There is an option under "Context: Window" for
"Send to Workspace X" that would solve a lot of my wants if I could just
get it to work.  Unfortunately I can't get any of the key bindings to
work.

Gary