Matching windows to desktops

Erik Harrison erikharrison at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 03:08:23 CET 2007


On 2/5/07, TerryJ <listmail at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> Erik Harrison wrote:
> > On 2/5/07, TerryJ <listmail at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> > *Snip*
> >
> >> Thanks. I take it that "disown" is a command.  Now it's a matter of
> >> finding and appropriately describing "new-wm-I-want".  :-\
> >>
> >
> > Use Afterstep or WindowMaker.
> >
> >
> >> I think it's probably safer for me to try another standalone window
> >> manager.  AfterStep apparently stops this desktop shifting and
> >> WindowMaker may do so, as far as I understand these matters.  "killall"
> >> looks scary.
> >>
> >
> > $ man killall
> >
> > :-)
> >
> I can use another desktop (no names) to amend Xfce documents.  That's
> one reason I have other desktops.  I'd prefer not to use killall or
> those other commands on the fly.
>
> If I log in to another desktop (no name), which Xfce documents do I change?
>

The starting of Xfwm is managed by the session which stores its data
in semi opaque files. You could try poking around in
~/.cache/sessions, but that's unsupported.

This is really the official way to do it, kid.

> --
>
> Regards, TerryJ
>
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Erik

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