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Sawfish provides a way to flip between workspaces (or viewports) automatically by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen. The technique is called “edge flipping”.
These definitions are stored in the sawfish.wm.ext.edge-flip
structure. They can only be enabled through the customization
interface.
When true, select the next desktop when the pointer hits screen edge. Defaults to false.
Indicates what is selected when hitting the screen edge. Must be one of
viewportorworkspace. Defaults toworkspace.
When true, Sawfish only flips when the user is interactively moving a window. Defaults to false.
This variable is not customizable, but it can be edited.
Flippers are implemented as invisible windows on the edges of the
display (the windows overlap at the corners). When the pointer moves
over any of these windows, Sawfish generates enter-flipper-hook
and leave-flipper-hook events.
Programmers can add their own callbacks to perform other actions with
the flippers. This depends on manually enabling the flippers, using
the following functions in the sawfish.wm.util.flippers
structure. Note that you may have to manually remove the
edge-flip-enter and edge-flip-leave callbacks from the
hooks before adding your own callbacks.