Re: FVWM: Making an app pop up on the desk where it was started?

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:09:56 +0200

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 07:25:59PM +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> On Sunday 20 April 2003 18:27, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > > It's quite simple: Under KDE when I start an application on a certain
> > > desktop, say 2, and switch to another desktop, say 1, then, after being
> > > loaded, the application will pop up on desktop 2 without interrupting
> > > me working on desktop 1. Note that I'm not sure whether that holds true
> > > for absolutely all application and, unfortunately, I can't check it
> > > since KDE doesn't start anymore on my system (this might be due to some
> > > bugs in XFree86 as part of SuSE 8.2).
> >
> > You still didn't say which application shows a problem for you.
> >
> > I just happened to run konqueror to test how a site looks in it and it
> > opened a dialog window (transient) on the same desk where the konqueror
> > itself runs when I was on another desk.
>
> That's not what I described (although this is another feature I want). Just
> try this:
> 1. Goto desktop 2
> 2. Start Konqueror
> 3. Switch to desktop 1
> Then Konqueror will pop up on desktop 1. In KDE Konqueror will pop up on
> desktop 2.

Do you use the EWMHIgnoreStateHints style? If yes, switch it off,
if no send a bug report to the KDE/Konqueror folks. Probably they
are using some KDE internal mechanism to do this instead of using
EWMH hints.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Tue Apr 22 2003 - 03:09:27 BST

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