Active Desktop Borders, mouse location

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Mon Oct 16 18:29:42 BST 2006


On Sunday 15 October 2006 04:01, Thomas Krawczyk wrote:
> I have grown to love virutal desktops in Fvwm, and have avoided KDE because
> "active borders" are not quite the same. The reason is simple, in Fvwm,
> virtual desktops make it appear that you are working in one much large
> desktop and just viewing a subsection of it. In KDE this feeling is lost
> because of where your cursor appears after you move to an edge and switch
> desktops.
>
> Is there a configuration option in KDE to make cursor appear on the
> opposite side of the desktop you came from. i.e. If you move your cursor
> off the right side edge then in the new desktop the cursor should move to
> the left side edge. This would give the illusion that you are on one large
> desktop.
>
> I'd be happy to hack the source if someone could point me in the right
> direction.

Most likely KWin (the window manager)

in SVN
branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kwin
trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kwin

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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