If you're using Compiz, the Window Rules and Place Windows plugins let you manipulate a lot of these setting via a decent GUI (CompizConfig Settings Manager).
________________________________________ Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 On 02/02/2011 11:36 AM, Daniel Hedlund wrote: > While not a perfect solution, you can prevent any window opened from a > terminal from receiving focus by default. You can get this behavior > by changing a registry key in the GConf configuration > $> gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/focus_new_windows --type > string strict > ...... > There's a tool called Devil's Pie > (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Devilspie) that allows you to > control window behavior based on a configuration file. Among other > things, you can make it so that when a window matching a certain > description is created that it automatically gets opened on a specific > desktop. Definitely worth checking out. Additional documentation on > it's config format: > http://foosel.org/linux/devilspie > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
