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 11:06:27 +0200

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:57:39AM +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 10:09, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> No, but to make sure I put
> Style * EWMHUseStateHints
> in my .fvwm2rc
>
> > 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.
>
> This is not Konqueror specific. I have yet to find an application that
> behaves the way I want. I just tried Netscape and EMACS as well. Both pop
> up on the desktop I'm currently working on, even if they were started on
> another desktop. Again: in KDE this works out of the box. Why can't it work
> under FVWM?

Because it's probably some undocumented KDE internal stuff.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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