wishlist from a blackbox and rox user...

[Matthew Weier OPhinney]

-- Moritz Heiber <MisterMoe at hackerboard.de> wrote
(on Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 09:09 PM +0200):
> >     1. In the window menus, a "Send to workspace..." option. In
> >        blackbox, you can send the window to any of the workspaces;
> >        middle-clicking the workspace name/number switches to that
> >        workspace, as well.
> 
> Use the pager to drag your app of choice to whichever virtuell desktop
> you want.

Right, I know I can do this, and I was able to do this with bbpager. I
liked the ease of being able to right-click on the title bar and do it
there, however.

> >     2. A method for setting application default net_wm hints. In
> >        particular, a way to tell xfwm4 to start an application sticky or
> >        iconified. Blackbox has two tools, bbappconf and bblaunch, which
> >        will do some of these things; unfortunately, they're not net_wm
> >        aware (yet).
> > 
> >        As an example, I like to have gkrellm sticky; right now, I have
> >        to tell it to be sticky after it has started. It would be nice if
> >        I could simply start in in a sticky state.
> 
> Gkrellm2 is able to set this state itself after start. Goto
> Configuration/Properties and check the box by "Set sticky state".

Oh -- thanks for that. I'd still like to see something like this,
however; in the past I've set other windows sticky (such as a ROX window
open to a directory of applications or project files).

One item I forgot to mention -- having the application start on a
specific workspace. For instance, having a large terminal open on
workspace 4 on startup.

I realize that these items have workarounds -- that's why I labelled the
email as a wishlist; they're things I'd like in an ideal world, but may
or may not fit in the overall scope of the WM.

Thanks for the workarounds, though!

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew at weierophinney.net
http://matthew.weierophinney.net