Re: Virtual Desktop Question

[Rasaki Bidemi Bolanle Temidire <bidemi cr23202-a slnt1 on wave home com>]

Hi,

If you want be able to specify which desktop a particular class or group
of applications should always start in, I would suggest running
WindowMaker as your current window manager.

When you right click on the title bar of an application such as Netscape,
you get a menu of option of which one if "`Attributes".  In the attributes
specification window, you can tell it which workspace the application
should always be started in.  I have labeled my third workspace area
"Network 2" and have specified that as the workspace in which Netscape
should always be launched.  When I hit the "Netscape" launcher on my
trusty GNOME Panel, regardless of what workspace I do this in, Netscape
always starts in the "Network 2" workspace.  I don't know whether this
facility is available under Enlightenment or Sawmill but it is there in
WindowMaker.  Try it.

I hope that this helps you.

Bidemi Temidire

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, William Reardon wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I've trying to have specific applications start in specific virtual
> desks (e.g. I have a single desktop that is setup as a 2 x 4 virtual
> desktop (so in essence, 8 total virtual desktops.  I'd like Netscape to
> start up in vir. desk. #1, emacs in #2, xterms to host 1 in #3, xterms
> to host 2 in #4, etc.).  
> 
> How do I do that?
> 
> I looks like you can do if you have multiple desktops, but not if you
> have a single desktop with several virtual ones.  Is this understanding
> correct?
> 
> (FWIW, I'm trying to replicate a setup a had a while back in my ctwm
> days.)
> 
> Thanks,
> -Bill
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