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Watch and explore outer space with Stellarium, Celestia, and Xplanet

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMT
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth spent about $20 million to go into space, and he never got farther away from Earth than a few hundred miles. Using three free software programs, you can look at and virtually travel to places millions of miles away without leaving your GNU/Linux desktop or paying a dime.

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Gnome2::Wnck::Workspace(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Gnome2::Wnck::Workspace(3pm)

NAME

       Gnome2::Wnck::Workspace - an object representing a workspace

HIERARCHY

	 Glib::Object
	 +----Gnome2::Wnck::Workspace

METHODS

   $space->activate ($timestamp)
       o   $timestamp (unsigned)

   $space->change_name ($name)
       o   $name (string)

   integer = $space->get_height
   boolean = $space->is_virtual
   integer = $space->get_layout_column
   integer = $space->get_layout_row
   string = $space->get_name
   workspace or undef = $space->get_neighbor ($direction)
       o   $direction (Gnome2::Wnck::MotionDirection)

   integer = $space->get_number
   screen = $space->get_screen
   integer = $space->get_viewport_x
   integer = $space->get_viewport_y
   integer = $space->get_width
SIGNALS

       name-changed (Gnome2::Wnck::Workspace)

ENUMS AND FLAGS

   enum Gnome2::Wnck::MotionDirection
       o   'up' / 'WNCK_MOTION_UP'

       o   'down' / 'WNCK_MOTION_DOWN'

       o   'left' / 'WNCK_MOTION_LEFT'

       o   'right' / 'WNCK_MOTION_RIGHT'

SEE ALSO

       Gnome2::Wnck, Glib::Object

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003-2006 by the gtk2-perl team.

       This software is licensed under the LGPL.  See Gnome2::Wnck for a full notice.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-11-16					      Gnome2::Wnck::Workspace(3pm)

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