On 31 July 2010 00:56, Nick Treleaven <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:52:05 +1000 > Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I'm on Linux and have 8 virtual desktops and I often work on different >> > projects on different desktops. If I run gedit from the command line >> > gedit will start a new instance if there isn't already a running >> > instance on the current virtual desktop. >> > >> > I know I can do 'geany -i <file>' to open a new instance, but I was >> > wondering if the behaviour of Gedit could be matched with Geany. > > I'd also like this behaviour - I added a TODO item a while ago: > o (per-workspace instances with socket support?) > > I don't know whether this is doable for Geany, more research needed. > >> Geany does not know about virtual desktops. These are accessed with >> Gnome specific libraries and would increase the dependencies of Geany >> and would make it more complex to keep portable to all desktops and to >> Windows. > > Maybe, but we're hopefully going to add some kind of X session support, > so not sure this argument holds.
Welcome back Nick, good point, in that case I believe the functionality is in libwnck Cheers Lex > > Regards, > Nick > _______________________________________________ > Geany mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany > _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
