Matching windows to desktops

Lehman Black dosnlinux at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 03:15:14 CET 2007


maybe wmctrl (http://www.sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/)

On 2/5/07, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> > Using Xfce on PCLinuxOS. www.revivalcentres.org
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Xfce mailing list
> > Xfce at xfce.org
> > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
> > http://www.xfce.org
> >
>
>
> --
> Erik
>
> <@kazin> why does php have 'echo' and 'print'?  Do they do different
> things?
> <Bluefoxicy> kazin:  echo prints in a big empty room
> _______________________________________________
> Xfce mailing list
> Xfce at xfce.org
> http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
> http://www.xfce.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/attachments/20070205/92587379/attachment.html>


More information about the Xfce mailing list