desktop 'tape'

[Benjamin Rich]

Using devilspie, and it's quite good more getting my mailer over to
desktop-1 regardless - but can it move new windows to free workspaces?

-Ben

On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 00:51, Matthew Weier OPhinney wrote:
> -- Benjamin Rich <benxor at cracksmokingducks.com> wrote
> (on Saturday, 27 March 2004, 10:48 PM +1100):
> > I was thinking of making this a feature request but it seemed too large
> > to put in xfce-bugs, so here it is.
> > 
> > Situation: I use lots of desktops. Usually, in my multiple desktop
> > pager, I have 7 desktops, 5 or 6 of which I end up using. I do this
> > mainly because a) I use a lot of different applications and b) every
> > major application needs a full screen to itself. GIMP, gFTP, Quanta,
> > Evolution, etc. all require pretty much an entire screen to themselves
> > for you to use them properly - hence, a desktop for each major app
> > running.
> > 
> > Problem: In XFCE4, there seems to be no way of getting a window to load
> > in the desktop it was spawned in. If I click the icon for firefox, and
> > it takes 12seconds to load and display (being that it's firefox =P ),
> > then I have to make sure I'm in a blank desktop when that moment arrives
> > - or at least that I am where I want the app to load. Likewise, when I
> > save a session with a copy of Evolution running in desktop1, when I load
> > up XFCE4 again, Evolution will load only in desktop1 if I'm there at the
> > time.
> 
> You might want to look into wmctrl or devilspie. I use wmctrl and create
> wrapper scripts that look something like:
>     #!/bin/bash
>     mailer &
>     sleep 5
>     wmctrl -r mailer -t 3
> and then it will launch my mailer and place it on workspace 4
> (workspaces are numbered 0-3...). Devilspie might be more your style,
> however -- you create a config and devilspie runs in the background and
> applies settings to windows as they're spawned.
> 
> This solution is nice -- now I don't need to worry about which window
> manager I'm using (unless it's not netwm compliant!), and I get the same
> behaviour.
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