workspace behaviour

James Takac p3nndrag0n at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 11:26:39 UTC 2008


Hi Mumia

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Mumia W. <
paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net<paduille.4062.mumia.w%2Bnospam at earthlink.net>>
wrote:

> James Takac wrote:
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > Been noticing something interesting on one of my ubuntu pc's. It's the
> only
> > one on 24/7. Basically if left alone for some time it switches workspaces
> by
> > itself. It did it this morning as I watched. No intervention from me. Is
> this
> > meant to be a feature or some oddity on my end?
> >
> > James
> >
>
> If you have edge-flipping enabled, when the mouse pointer reaches the
> end of the screen, you'll be taken to another workspace. Fvwm and
> Enlightenment have this ability.
>
> Also, if you have programs on multiple workspaces, you'll see that
> sometimes a program attempts to make itself visible. If you're already
> on the right workspace, the program's window will come to the top; if
> you're on another workspace, you'll be switched to the program's
> workspace first.
>
>
>
>
That could be it. By page flipping you mean the ability to flip between work
spaces with the scroll wheel for example? That I have enabled obviously.
More oft than not I have only the one space active. This morning there was a
2nd one active but it switched to an empty one

James
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