Matching windows to desktops

[Mike Massonnet]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:48:06AM -0500, Joe Klemmer wrote:

Hello Joe, 

> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 20:13 -0500, Erik Harrison wrote:
> 
> > > 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've been preferring to use pkill as it's also on other Unicies
> (Solaris, for one).  It's basically the same thing but multi-platform, I
> guess.

Brian wrote an answer somewhere some time ago (hard to dig..), but the
difference is that pkill takes a motif and not a name as parameter which
means you are able to kill processes you don't want to.

For an example example you can run ``pgrep xfce'' and see a bunch of
processes id.

Cheers,
Mike
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