3.3. Workspace Manager

Workspace Manager is a Widget in the center of the Front Panel. Visually, it replicates in almost a pixel similarity with the center of the CDE's Workspace Manager's buttons, but with a few exceptions beneath the surface and further configuration:

State of the buttons is synchronized by FVWM function called from FvwmEvent(1) module whenever desks and pages are changed by other means, such as keyboard shortcut, mouse move, or FvwmCommand(1).

In 4 color palette mode, all WSM buttons are of the same color, while in 8 colors mode, there are four color variations from the given palette. In the 8 colors mode, InfoStore option wsmcolored in the $FVWM_USERDIR/NsCDE.conf can be set to 1 to get background of the WSM colored as button 3, which was the case on some versions of the CDE. By default, this value is 0.

Workspaces in NsCDE are named and numbered from 1, while in FVWM (where they are called desks), they start from 0. This fact required additional effort while coding FvwmScripts and making default and core configuration.