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April 9, 2019 at 1:24 pm #20315
Mynaardt
Member

    I managed to figure out how to set the number of work spaces for Ice-WM and Fluxbox already.

    I’s JWM I’m having trouble with to set the number of work spaces.

    I can see where it should be set, but it doesn’t seem to work for me for some reason.I can’t seem to set to three work spaces

    I looked through JWM Guide site and I thought changing the Desktop Count statement in that XML file would do the trick.

    This is what I found in ~/.jwm/preferences:

    <!-- Virtual Desktops -->
<!-- Desktop tags can be contained within Desktops for desktop names. -->
<Desktops count="2">
<Desktops height="1" width="2">
   <!-- Default background. Note that a Background tag can be contained within a Desktop tag to give a specific background for that desktop. -->
</Desktops>

    I thought changing to <Desktops count=”2″> to <Desktops count=”3″> would do the trick, but no such luck! Then I noticed there were four workspaces in the taskbar, even though the desktops count said 2. Or 3. I tried fiddling with the Desktops height field too, but that didn’t do anything either.

    It’s not a big deal if I can’t set the number of virtual desktops to something I would prefer in JWM. It seems to be working just fine otherwise. It’s just a personal preference sort of thing, that’s all.

    Thanks again!

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