On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:23:54 -0600, Derek Martin wrote:
> Here's an example of why: I run my desktop with all my "applications"
> in windows which are tiled in essentially fixed positions on my screen
> (with some overlap, but as little as I can manage). There is not a
> shred of free screen real estate on my main desktop; I need to switch
> to alternate desktops when I want to do something out of the ordinary,
> in order to not mess with those other windows overmuch.
>
> When applications pop up new windows, it breaks how I work in some
> fashion or other--not that I can't handle the occasional pop-up, but
> in order to keep my workflow streamlined I want that to happen as
> infrequently as possible. Adding something where new windows pop up
> with new mutt instances is generally unwelcome in my workflow, no
> matter how well it may "work" in the context of Mutt.
Some alternative solutions I can think of (since this problem seems
hardly restricted to mutt's behavior):
- use a tiling window manager (since this seems to match how you are
working now); or
- use tmux to spawn terminal commands inside of existing windows; or
- use KWin which can enforce your window positions using rules and
then nothing can interfere with them.
--Ben
