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ajoeiam

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Registered: 2023-03-29

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running into some limitations I would like to dig through (get rid of)

Greetings

(Short explanation first.)

I run a system with a lot of graphics resources - - 4 - 24" monitors and 1 - 4k monitor (43")

xfwm4 is one of the few window managers that lets me use all this real estate but I've run into some problems. (Thanks for the tool!!!)

1. - - (known issue) 'Workspaces' does not retaining naming through a reboot.
2. there seems to be a hard limit of 36 virtual desktops possible - - - I would like more!

I set 'Workspaces' to 40 and then filled all the 'Names'.
Went to ''Margins' and back and I was back down to 36 although on the screen (3840 pixels wide) there were 40 desktops.

I have physical capability of listing perhaps 2 x 23 (46) desktops when I have up to 18 characters per desktop name.

Is there some way that I could change this behavior on my system or how might I get a change effected?

TIA

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: running into some limitations I would like to dig through (get rid of)

Hello and welcome.

To begin with, which distro and version of Xfce and xfwm4 are you running? The answers below refer to the current 4.18 versions.

1. - - (known issue) 'Workspaces' does not retaining naming through a reboot.

They should be retained unless there is some interruption in the action to write the names to the drive (~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml). If the changes are not being retained through reboots it would be useful to see the contents of ~/.xsession-errors.old (if your distro uses one) or the results of:

journalctl --user -b -1 --no-pager

...to see if any errors are being recorded. Also ensure that your user account has ownership of that file.

2. there seems to be a hard limit of 36 virtual desktops possible - - - I would like more!

A cursory review of the current version of xfwm4 workspace code doesn't seem to set a maximum count. It does however rely on freedesktop EWMH standard - specifically the _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS property - and I can't find any information that it also has an upper limit.

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