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Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> I do not want windows to go full screen if they get too close to a 
>>margin.
> 
> Amen.

Agreed.

> I also almost never work with a full-screen application.  There is 
> always some of the background visible around the app, even if I'm 
> working with just one application for hours (that happens seldomly, 
> but it does).  Full Screen is fully useless on a big screen anyway.

Also agreed.  About the only apps that get 'full screened' are GIMP 
(sometimes) and JOSM.  Beyond those two, everything else runs in an 
actual window.  A 23" monitor is not a cellphone....

> I als hate when those "I always work full screen" (Beancounters often
> do that) decide for me that I don't need a big screen for my work
> based on the fact that a big screen is annoying for them.

Agreed.

> I also like focus-follows-mouse and find myself frequently typing
> consciously into a window that is not on the top.

I do the same (Fvwm2 is configured to do 'focus follows mouse'.  And I 
often am typing into an xterm (urxvt now) somewhere that is not on top.

However, I did see (no idea of where anymore) one reference that the 
idiot savants that have brought us systemd and gnome have decided for 
us that the MS Win stupidity of "keyboard focus must always equal 
window on top" from MSWin is "the one true way" with their wayland 
system.

>> I do not want virtual desktops displayed as a rotating polyhedron.

Fvwm2 never did this for virtual desks, and I've never missed the lack 
of having it.