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ska23

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Tuesday, March 15th 2005, 8:52am

3x3 Desktops

Dear KDE-Community,

I know that this must sound stupid to many users but be it as it may it is important to me. I am a 9 year un*x user who started with fvwm1 back then and that had 3x3 viewports on one desktop preconfigured for me.

I /could/ switch from viewports to desktops (although I don't like it very much) but I will *not* abandon the 3x3 layout. And I can't find any way to achieve this in KDE. Actually this is one of the main reasons that prevent me switching from plain sawfish with nothing else to KDE. Of course I want it with an old style pager :-)

Is it possible to get a 3x3 layout of desktops (or even better viewports) with KDE and if so: how?

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Stefan Kamphausen

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Thursday, March 17th 2005, 1:01am

RE: 3x3 Desktops

you are not alone in this! I've just come over from being used to doing things the gnome way.. and the 3x3 desktop switcher was a crucial part of my experience. Having 5x2 just doesn't seem right :/

Anyone able to offer a solution?

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Thursday, March 17th 2005, 8:11pm

well, after some more playing around, it looks like I've found a solution :) Right click on one of the desktops, and go to show -> rows -> 3! It looks like Automatic is the default, and automatically chooses 2.. I've done this and it's nice to have a 3x3 layout again! The only thing I miss is being able to drag windows from one desktop to another using the tray applet, like I could in Gnome.. but ah well.. Guess this will have to do! (I realize this can be done if I launch the 'pager', but I don't want to have to do that just to move a window.. it's easier to right click the window in the taskbar)

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Wednesday, March 23rd 2005, 11:51am

Hi surreal,

thanks for the hint. I am currently giving KDE another try (after spending the better of a day configuring the rest ;-).

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Sunday, April 17th 2005, 8:14pm

have you seen this?

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7120

I'm not sure if this will help, but it looks like you can drag windows from one desktop to another from the pager. At least that's what I understand from the change log. Have fun.