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Re: [opensuse-kde] Apps and virtual desktops
- From: "Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing" <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:42:36 -0400
- Message-id: <46FD04CC.6060904@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
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> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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/
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