On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:21:03AM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:07:33 +0000 Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> said:
> 
> > I am considering moving to enlightenment.  A while ago I used to use
> > FVWM and I still miss much of its ease of configuration.  I am now using
> > the xfce desktop on some systems and lubuntu (with its default window
> > manager) on others.  I'm not entirely happy with either.
> > 
> > First question, the welcome message to the mailing lists says one should
> > read the FAQ, but for the life of me I can't find it (I started, quite
> > reasonably I think, at http://enlightenment.org).
> > 
> > Second question, is there a straightforward way of starting specific
> > instances of applications on specific desktops?  I want (for example) to
> > be able to start several terminal (lxterminal, xfceterminal, whatever)
> > windows on specific desktops.  This was dead easy in fvwm but appears to
> > be close to impossible with modern (?) window managers.  Can
> > enlightenment do it?
> 
> click icon of app, or alt+right mouse on window -> window -> remember
> 
> you can ask e to "remember" things about that window... in the basic dialog. 
> in
> advanced you can fine-tune this out of the wazoo... including asking e to run
> the app on login. :)
> 
> alternatively you can not ask it to remember launching here and use the
> settings -> apps -> startup applications. and add applications to start to the
> order list. you can even define the order. :)
> 
Thanks for the response.

Just to be absolutely clear - it is possible to start more than one
instance of the *same* application specifying a different desktop for
each instance is it?  Essentially this requires that the window manager
assigns a unique name to the instance (the FVWM start up script, if I
remember right, does this explicitly) so that one can then tell it to
run a specific instance on a specific desktop.

It does sound as if Enlightenment can do what I want.

-- 
Chris Green

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