On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:47:47PM -0500, jeff covey wrote: > what else can i cause to happen based on an application's class? in > particular, i'm missing a feature i enjoyed with larswm, having specific > types of windows stick to particular pages. for an application like gnucash > which takes a considerable amount of time to open, i'd rather not wait for > it to open or risk having it suddenly thrust itself into focus while i'm in > the middle of typing something. it was much less nerve-wracking to launch > it and go ahead with what i was doing, confident that it was quietly opening > itself and waiting for me on page 3. > > i've thought of writing a script which checks the classes of all the clients > every few seconds and moves any which should be somewhere else, but it would > be crude and still (i assume) involve losing control and watching the screen > change as the client is detached, the target page is selected, it's > attached, and the original page is re-selected. is there a more elegant way > this could be managed?
Yes, this is on TODO for wmii-3, beside the attach heuristic which is already contained in last snap. Though I'm not sure about implementation details yet. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
