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Metisse: An Experiment in Three Dimensional Thinking

Posted Sep 9, 2004 8:28 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (guest, #774)
Parent article: Metisse: An Experiment in Three Dimensional Thinking

If you hover your mouse cursor over an unoccupied portion of your desktop, the scroll wheel will let you scroll among all of your virtual desktops.

I've been using this for years with FVWM.

Rotating a window on the X axis means you can rotate it until it's pretty thin and then move it out of the way.

I just double-click on a window's toolbar and it shades away; another double-click and the window's restored. Seems to me a faster way of achieving this.

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Posted Sep 9, 2004 20:19 UTC (Thu) by RogerL (guest, #4046) [Link]

If you hover your mouse cursor over an unoccupied portion of your desktop, the scroll wheel will let you scroll among all of your virtual desktops.

I've been using this for years with FVWM.

You have "unoccupied portions" on your desktop? I never have...
In KDE you can use the scroll wheel over the virtual desktop indicator.

Metisse: An Experiment in Three Dimensional Thinking

Posted Sep 9, 2004 21:04 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link]

> You have "unoccupied portions" on your desktop?

Well, that's what virtual desktop is for - to keep the screen relatively uncluttered...

> In KDE you can use the scroll wheel over the virtual desktop indicator.

In FVWM, you can drag the viewport on the desktop pager with the 3rd mouse button - a la joystick, full 2D control.