On Saturday 17 Nov 2012 10:41:54 Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:01:48 +0000 Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> said:
> > 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.
>
> wm's don't assign names. the apps do. wm's SEE these properties. it
> requires the APP assign a unique NAME. not title. title's are pretty close
> to useless for matching as they keep changing. name/class/role are what's
> useful. this needs to be unique to uniquely identify that window and apply
> remembered stuff to it.
Just to understand this:
If I want the first urxvt to always open on desktop 1, say towards the top RH
corner and the second urxvt to always open on desktop 1, say towards the
bottom LH corner, how should I name the first and how should I name the second
so that they are always recognised as such?
As it is now opening a second window of an application (e.g. urxvt, konqueror,
chrome, etc) always opens on top of the existing 'remembered' window of the
same application.
--
Regards,
Mick
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