[opensuse-kde] Apps and virtual desktops
Hey Folks, Is there any way to lock an app to a particular desktop in kde? I have firefox running in a virtual desktop called "web" and kontact/kmail running in another one called "Kontact". Most of the time (but not all of the time), when I click on a url in an email, it pulls firefox from the Web desktop to the Kontact desktop. Any ideas? -- John Quentin Heywood Adjunct Professor of International Law Digital Media Librarian & Information Architect heywood@american.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Den Wednesday 26 September 2007 18:25:11 skrev John Quentin Heywood:
Is there any way to lock an app to a particular desktop in kde?
Try right click on titlebar of window/app -> advanced -> special application settings -> geometry -> desktop --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
John Quentin Heywood wrote:
Hey Folks,
Is there any way to lock an app to a particular desktop in kde? I have firefox running in a virtual desktop called "web" and kontact/kmail running in another one called "Kontact". Most of the time (but not all of the time), when I click on a url in an email, it pulls firefox from the Web desktop to the Kontact desktop. Any ideas?
Right click title bar of application -> Advanced -> Special Application Settings -> Geometry -> Set Desktop to Force, select desktop of your choice from the drop down, click OK, click on those links and watch your desktop switch! :) Best regards Sylvester --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 12:48:32 pm Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
Right click title bar of application -> Advanced -> Special Application Settings -> Geometry -> Set Desktop to Force, select desktop of your choice from the drop down, click OK, click on those links and watch your desktop switch!
Thanks Sylvester and Martin! It worked like a charm. Yet another to add to my list of reasons I love linux..... -- John Quentin Heywood Adjunct Professor of International Law Digital Media Librarian & Information Architect heywood@american.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
John Quentin Heywood wrote:
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 12:48:32 pm Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
Right click title bar of application -> Advanced -> Special Application Settings -> Geometry -> Set Desktop to Force, select desktop of your choice from the drop down, click OK, click on those links and watch your desktop switch!
Thanks Sylvester and Martin! It worked like a charm. Yet another to add to my list of reasons I love linux.....
Just be careful with those settings! While the desktop one is fine, the other ones which affect size and position, can really behave quite unexpectedly. I have yet to figure out how to get Thunderbird to show up in a particular spot on the screen, in a particular size, without forcing all of its subwindows to do the same. So if you set "Maximize Vertically", it seems to force all of its dialogs and the like to be that size too :-( -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:41, Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing wrote:
John Quentin Heywood wrote:
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 12:48:32 pm Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
Right click title bar of application -> Advanced -> Special Application Settings -> Geometry -> Set Desktop to Force, select desktop of your choice from the drop down, click OK, click on those links and watch your desktop switch!
Thanks Sylvester and Martin! It worked like a charm. Yet another to add to my list of reasons I love linux.....
Just be careful with those settings! While the desktop one is fine, the other ones which affect size and position, can really behave quite unexpectedly. I have yet to figure out how to get Thunderbird to show up in a particular spot on the screen, in a particular size, without forcing all of its subwindows to do the same. So if you set "Maximize Vertically", it seems to force all of its dialogs and the like to be that size too :-(
There's an extensive set of options for controlling just which windows are subject to a given set of per-window settings. These are in the "Window" and "Window Extra" tabs of the Window-Specific Settings dialog. I can't say I have a particularly good understanding of these, but I know I've been able to get the results I want in every case, not all of them entirely trivial, with a bit of trial and error. Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On st 26. září 2007, Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing wrote:
John Quentin Heywood wrote:
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 12:48:32 pm Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
Right click title bar of application -> Advanced -> Special Application Settings -> Geometry -> Set Desktop to Force, select desktop of your choice from the drop down, click OK, click on those links and watch your desktop switch!
Thanks Sylvester and Martin! It worked like a charm. Yet another to add to my list of reasons I love linux.....
Just be careful with those settings! While the desktop one is fine, the other ones which affect size and position, can really behave quite unexpectedly. I have yet to figure out how to get Thunderbird to show up in a particular spot on the screen, in a particular size, without forcing all of its subwindows to do the same. So if you set "Maximize Vertically", it seems to force all of its dialogs and the like to be that size too :-(
That's why Alt+F3/Advanced has both Special Window Settings and Special Application Settings :). Unless the application is seriously broken KWin should manage to make the first one affect only the specific window and the latter all windows of that application. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http//www.suse.cz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Lubos Lunak wrote:
On st 26. září 2007, Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing wrote:
John Quentin Heywood wrote:
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 12:48:32 pm Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
Right click title bar of application -> Advanced -> Special Application Settings -> Geometry -> Set Desktop to Force, select desktop of your choice from the drop down, click OK, click on those links and watch your desktop switch! Thanks Sylvester and Martin! It worked like a charm. Yet another to add to my list of reasons I love linux..... Just be careful with those settings! While the desktop one is fine, the other ones which affect size and position, can really behave quite unexpectedly. I have yet to figure out how to get Thunderbird to show up in a particular spot on the screen, in a particular size, without forcing all of its subwindows to do the same. So if you set "Maximize Vertically", it seems to force all of its dialogs and the like to be that size too :-(
That's why Alt+F3/Advanced has both Special Window Settings and Special Application Settings :). Unless the application is seriously broken KWin should manage to make the first one affect only the specific window and the latter all windows of that application.
Yup, sounds great in theory. But in practice, neither the Application nor the Window settings seemed to do just what I wanted them to do with Firefox. I'm trying the "Apply Initially" for the Application settings and that seems to be working better. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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Sylvester Lykkehus