On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:08 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin quoting Brad Beyenhof as of Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:19:43PM -0700:
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:06 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > I wouldn't mind hearing more of that, keeping in mind that you have to
> > > be talking to me, rather than to one who is familiar with the OS X
> > > environment.
> >
> > Well, than I'll reverse what I said before. In Linux, you have a lot
> > of control over which applications (and which windows) appear on which
> > virtual desktops.
>
> Details?
>
> How do I, on VD#1, start up an xterm on VD#2 and VD#3 from the
> command-line?
Well, *I've* never found myself wanting to do that, so it's flexible
enough for *me.* :)
> > The default is for newly-created windows to appear
> > on the current desktop, regardless of the number and kind of windows
> > that already exist elsewhere.
>
> For which window-managers?
Again with the window-managers, about which I'm still ignorant... and
undesirably so. Please enlighten me. I've never explicitly installed a
window manager other than the default on any of my currently-running
distros. I understand that the DE and the WM are separate, but the
extent of that separation remains a mystery to me.
> > It's very flexible, and it allows you to
> > create desktops that focus on various *tasks*.
>
> My virtual desktops are named according to their primary task. :)
Which seems to me the most logical way to do it...
> > So, if
> > your browser is open on Space 2 and you click a link in Space 4, you
> > have to travel over to Space 2 in order to see the page rendered.
>
> WindowMaker seems to do this now.
>
> I don't recall it doing this before.
>
> There are times when it's annoying not to do so (I run an application,
> the splash screen comes up, I changes to a different desktop to let the
> app finish starting up (hello star/open office, I'm talking about you),
> and whoops! It's on the wrong desktop), and other times when I want
> show-up-on-the-current-screen behavior.
Well, once a window is open on a VD, you don't want new windows in
that app to automatically get sucked over to that VD regardless of
where you currently are, right? That's what Spaces does, and it sucks.
> It's a DWIM situation. There's no way to win.
CentOS+GNOME+${defaultWM} is a win for me, and because I like it that
way (except for the OpenOffice action you mention above) everything
else sucks.
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