Virtual desktop gone

Bob Tennent rdt at cs.queensu.ca
Fri Jun 29 04:26:44 PDT 2007


 >|> > Hi. I've upgraded my ASUS S5N ultraportable to Fedora 7. I used to
 >|> > specify i810 as the driver but now that hangs up and I switched to
 >|> > intel. But I no longer get a virtual desktop, despite:
 >|> >
 >|> >                   Virtual   1600 1200
 >|> >
 >|> > in the Display section of xorg.conf.
 >|>
 >|  It got removed from xserver and has to be reimplemented (along with
 >|xrandr-1.2 awarness) in window managers.

You're saying this a feature, not a bug? Where do I complain about this?
The virtual desktops of KDE etc. require clicking and are an utter PITA
compared to the traditional smooth-scrolling X virtual desktop.

Bob T.



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