Re: Question about gnome-terminal

[Manish Vachharajani <mvachhar vger rutgers edu>]

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 raster@redhat.com wrote:

> On 11 Jan, Manish Vachharajani scribbled:
> ->  
> ->  Using E, if I start gnome-terminal on Desktop 0 and move it to Desktop 1,
> ->  then choose Terminal->New Terminal, the new Terminal runs back to Desktop
> ->  0.  I believe this is because desktop 0 is the root window and gnome_app
> ->  assumes its parent to be the parent the application was started on. First,
> ->  is this a correct analysis?  Second, is there any way to fix this behavior
> ->  so the window comes up on the current desktop?
> 
> by default it shoudl unless the ap specifically requests to come up on
> desktop X
> 
> do an xprop on the newly popped up window... check gnome terminal code
> to see if it's explicitly calling some of the set desktop calls.
> 
> is this recent?

Yeah, I checked out E last night, as well as gtk+, gnome-libs and
gnome-core, from devel CVS.  I didn't see any magic that should break
things in gnome-terminal.  Actually the panel exhibits the same behavior
with its configuration dialogs.  I am not sure why this is happening
though.
 
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Manish Vachharajani               Some Haiku: A crash reduces
<mvachhar@vger.rutgers.edu>                   your expensive computer
                                              to a simple stone - Unknown