Re: Workspace confusion

["Robert Moskowitz" <rgm htt-consult com>]

Sean Christopher A Nichols wrote:
> > Why does it do this?
>
> Because it's defined to. :-P
I figured that out. I doubted it was a bug.
> > Or rather how do I get it NOT to behave in this manner. To open in 
> > the window I started it in and not pull the others into that workspace?
>
> [my-prompt]$ gedit --new-window mydocument.txt
Ah!
> To get Nautilus to open text (or whatever) documents in a new Window 
> by default, configure that in Nautilus (by telling it to run the above 
> command), not in gedit. Other apps with which you experience this 
> behaviour may or may not (but probably will) have an analogous command 
> line option. Something like
>
> [my-prompt]$ myapplication --help
>
> will usually tell you if this is the case.
thanks!