Matching windows to desktops

[Erik Harrison]

On 2/5/07, TerryJ <listmail at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> Erik Harrison wrote:
> > On 2/5/07, Lehman Black <dosnlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> maybe wmctrl (http://www.sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/)
> >>
> >
> > wmctrl powers the tool that Terry already found insufficient in terms
> > of UI. So that probably won't help
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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.
> Ok.  wmctrl does not seem to have any relevant parameters and I don't
> know that it helps my nerves to contemplate using it.
>
> I'd like to ask one more question.  *If Xfce is nuked by this procedure,
> how do I restore it?*  I'll back up .config at least - is it a simple
> matter of replacing the new .config with the old?
>
> afterstep seems to exist as two executables -/usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep
> /usr/bin/X11/afterstep .  That's just one example of the type of
> complication that can make my attempts at doing this sort of thing blow
> up and right now I'm very sick of reinstalling.

Whichever is first in your path, or ask on an afterstep list.

Here you go. Run the command. If you like your desktop with Afterstep,
then no worries, save your session. If you don't then don't save your
session, just log out and back in and things will be back to normal.

On the offchance that it works you log out and in, and it DOESN'T
work, just nuke ~/.cache/sessions/ and log back in and all shall be
well


>
> --
>
> Regards, TerryJ
>
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-- 
Erik

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