Virtual desktop gone

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/29/07, Bob Tennent <rdt at cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>  >|> > 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.
>

File a bug (https://bugs.freedesktop.org).  It shouldn't be too hard
to implement.  You'd basically just add an adjustframe() hook to the
crtc functions and then add the proper server side code to support it.
 This was discussed a while ago, but there wasn't much interest.

Alex