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New: Possible to have windows span desktops? (very wide xterms/konsole, etc)
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2007-07-02 11:53:14
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           Summary: Possible to have windows span desktops? 
(very wide
                    xterms/konsole, etc)
           Product: kwin
           Version: 3.0
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kwin kde org
        ReportedBy: hlein progressive-comp com


Version:           3.0 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
OS:                Linux

Perhaps this is possible and I just can't find it: can I
have windows span pager'ed desktops?

I typically have several very wide (400+ characters)
terminal windows open with tail -f's of Apache logs,
syslogs, etc.  With a 1600x1200 display and 7x13 font size,
that means the windows are about two full screen-widths
wide.  With fvwm for instance this is no problem, because
the desktops are all one virtual contiguous space, and
windows can easily span multiple desktops; you page to the
one you want.  In kwin it seems that the desktops are all
discrete, and can't share; if you slide a window partway off
the right side of a desktop, that part isn't visible in any
other desktop.

I really miss this feature in kwin; am I just not finding
it?   Fvwm also allows fine-grained sliding of your viewer
window; you can shift in any direction by just a hundred
pixels or so at a time--this would be nice too but not as
important.

I've seen people ask similar questions in the past on
mailing lists, etc; the responses given were about
Desktop->Window Behavior->Advanced->Active Desktop
Borders (which doesn't do what I'm talking about AFAICS), or
setting up a larger Virtual screen in the X server config,
which is just an awful approach.
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Possible to have windows span desktops? (very wide xterms/konsole, etc)
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2007-07-12 09:47:37
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l.lunak kde org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX



------- Additional Comments From l.lunak kde org  2007-07-12
16:47 -------
Sorry, KWin will not support viewports, as, except for this
detail, they're from the user's point of view exactly the
same, but completely different from the developer's of view.
If you want, you can use a different window manager with KDE
that supports viewports (http://ktown.kde.or
g/~seli/kdewm/).
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