2011/9/6 Teika Kazura
I don't understand why large desktop is not so much common (famous example which has LD is fvwm); it's really convenient since geometric meaning is intuitive. For example, my top-right viewport (a viewport is the portion shown in a monitor) is assigned for browser, and I switch the viewport by Shift + cursor. I only have one workspace, but some Sawfish user have several large workspaces.
Window managers don't do it any more because X11 has had the ability to do it itself for some 10 years now (see the "Screen" section in xorg.conf, notably the "Viewport" declaration). And people very much do still make use of it. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms