[opensuse] Opening same application on different desktops
Hi all, Opening the same application, like OpenOffice.org or Firefox on 4 different desktops causes confusion when a new link is started in e.g. Firefox or a new document or spreadsheet is opened from Konqueror. When a new link is opened in a new window, sometimes it opens in one of the other Desktops. I have to search all desktops to find the newly opened window. Similarly, if a new document is opened with a right click and the "Open with ..." is selected for the appropriate application, it seems to open where the last active session of the application was used. It is sometimes quite annoying when U forget that it may be opened somewhere else, and U click a second time. Is this normal behaviour to open files in other desktops than the one the start is initiated? :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-05-09 at 11:25 +0200, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Opening the same application, like OpenOffice.org or Firefox on 4 different desktops causes confusion when a new link is started in e.g. Firefox or a new document or spreadsheet is opened from Konqueror.
When a new link is opened in a new window, sometimes it opens in one of the other Desktops. I have to search all desktops to find the newly opened window. Similarly, if a new document is opened with a right click and the "Open with ..." is selected for the appropriate application, it seems to open where the last active session of the application was used. It is sometimes quite annoying when U forget that it may be opened somewhere else, and U click a second time. Is this normal behaviour to open files in other desktops than the one the start is initiated?
No, that's not normal and it doesn't happen to me - unless I go to another workspace before the window has opened. And some applications do not properly behave in this respect (yast, OOo sometimes). But you don't even say what desktop and version you use... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJMy5tTMYHG2NR9URAr+OAJ4uytamDmzOeel9qCr35wdtYQydhgCfZhNj T8MSl9G9qGC1cN1KWLQNJXA= =rFQS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2008-05-09 at 11:25 +0200, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Opening the same application, like OpenOffice.org or Firefox on 4 different desktops causes confusion when a new link is started in e.g. Firefox or a new document or spreadsheet is opened from Konqueror.
When a new link is opened in a new window, sometimes it opens in one of the other Desktops. I have to search all desktops to find the newly opened window. Similarly, if a new document is opened with a right click and the "Open with ..." is selected for the appropriate application, it seems to open where the last active session of the application was used. It is sometimes quite annoying when U forget that it may be opened somewhere else, and U click a second time. Is this normal behaviour to open files in other desktops than the one the start is initiated?
No, that's not normal and it doesn't happen to me - unless I go to another workspace before the window has opened. And some applications do not properly behave in this respect (yast, OOo sometimes).
Upper left hand corner... click ... To Desktop. Problem solved.
But you don't even say what desktop and version you use...
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On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Sam Clemens <clemens.sam1@gmail.com> wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2008-05-09 at 11:25 +0200, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Opening the same application, like OpenOffice.org or Firefox on 4 different desktops causes confusion when a new link is started in e.g. Firefox or a new document or spreadsheet is opened from Konqueror.
When a new link is opened in a new window, sometimes it opens in one of the other Desktops. I have to search all desktops to find the newly opened window. Similarly, if a new document is opened with a right click and the "Open with ..." is selected for the appropriate application, it seems to open where the last active session of the application was used. It is sometimes quite annoying when U forget that it may be opened somewhere else, and U click a second time. Is this normal behaviour to open files in other desktops than the one the start is initiated?
No, that's not normal and it doesn't happen to me - unless I go to another workspace before the window has opened. And some applications do not properly behave in this respect (yast, OOo sometimes).
Upper left hand corner... click ... To Desktop.
Problem solved.
Till next time. Why should he have to chase child windows all over the system? -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Sam Clemens <clemens.sam1@gmail.com> wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2008-05-09 at 11:25 +0200, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Opening the same application, like OpenOffice.org or Firefox on 4 different desktops causes confusion when a new link is started in e.g. Firefox or a new document or spreadsheet is opened from Konqueror.
When a new link is opened in a new window, sometimes it opens in one of the other Desktops. I have to search all desktops to find the newly opened window. Similarly, if a new document is opened with a right click and the "Open with ..." is selected for the appropriate application, it seems to open where the last active session of the application was used. It is sometimes quite annoying when U forget that it may be opened somewhere else, and U click a second time. Is this normal behaviour to open files in other desktops than the one the start is initiated? No, that's not normal and it doesn't happen to me - unless I go to another workspace before the window has opened. And some applications do not properly behave in this respect (yast, OOo sometimes).
Upper left hand corner... click ... To Desktop.
Problem solved.
Till next time. Why should he have to chase child windows all over the system?
You're not chasing a child window when it's following you to the new desktop you switched to while it was loading. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-05-09 at 18:21 -0400, Sam Clemens wrote: Those quotes...
No, that's not normal and it doesn't happen to me - unless I go to another workspace before the window has opened. And some applications do not properly behave in this respect (yast, OOo sometimes).
Upper left hand corner... click ... To Desktop.
Problem solved.
Try that with yast, qt/you module, gnome desktop, while it is donwloading the repo list, and then see if you can keep what you said. Or I could save you time telling you there is a bugzilla about it :-p - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJOCltTMYHG2NR9URAjMqAJ98k2mxuen4dWM4uXsAnKzgtao3FgCdFosU dIGLfwUx5ONqW4TU3PdPWHk= =4UbL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2008-05-09 at 18:21 -0400, Sam Clemens wrote:
Those quotes...
No, that's not normal and it doesn't happen to me - unless I go to another workspace before the window has opened. And some applications do not properly behave in this respect (yast, OOo sometimes).
Upper left hand corner... click ... To Desktop.
Problem solved.
Try that with yast, qt/you module, gnome desktop, while it is donwloading the repo list, and then see if you can keep what you said. Or I could save you time telling you there is a bugzilla about it :-p
Oh..that problem...the one where the opening window of a new child process keeps dragging you back to the other desktop... Sorry..the OP's way of describing it sounded like something completely different. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Sam Clemens wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Friday 2008-05-09 at 18:21 -0400, Sam Clemens wrote:
Those quotes...
No, that's not normal and it doesn't happen to me - unless I go to another workspace before the window has opened. And some applications do not properly behave in this respect (yast, OOo sometimes).
Upper left hand corner... click ... To Desktop.
Problem solved.
Try that with yast, qt/you module, gnome desktop, while it is donwloading the repo list, and then see if you can keep what you said. Or I could save you time telling you there is a bugzilla about it :-p
Oh..that problem...the one where the opening window of a new child process keeps dragging you back to the other desktop...
Sorry..the OP's way of describing it sounded like something completely different. Hi All,
Carlos, I have KDE delivered with OpenSUSE 10.3 with all recent online updates. w.r.t. the OP description: Let me try to describe it better. With OOo-Writer: I have 2 desktops. On desktop 1 I have Konqueror opened my Documents directory. I move to Desktop 2. There I start OOo-Writer. I move back to Desktop 1. In Konqueror I click on an *.odt file. The file opens, but in the already opened OOo-Writer on Desktop 2. With Adobe Reader 8: I can also reproduce this behaviour with Adobe 8. I opened a *.PDF on Desktop 2, then went to Desktop 1 and clicked on another *.PDF file; the *.PDF is opened in Desktop I where Adobe 8 was open with the other *.PDF document. Kpdf seems to behave correctly as far as I could determine. With Firefox 2.0.0.14: In an ERPII system that is accessed by any browser, in this case Firefox, I noticed similar behaviour when I click on a link in Desktop 1's Firefox, it opens a tab on Desktop 2's Firefox where I last worked with Firefox. Firefox in Desktop 2 already had two tabs open, the last one opened is which is then used by Firefox of Desktop 1. Both Firefox's were logged on to the same ERPII system at the time. It is reproducable with OOo-Writer and Adobe 8 Reader every time, but only in Firefox when I use it with the ERPII system. HTH :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-05-13 at 11:55 +0200, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Carlos, I have KDE delivered with OpenSUSE 10.3 with all recent online updates.
w.r.t. the OP description: Let me try to describe it better.
With OOo-Writer: I have 2 desktops.
On desktop 1 I have Konqueror opened my Documents directory.
I move to Desktop 2. There I start OOo-Writer.
I move back to Desktop 1. In Konqueror I click on an *.odt file. The file opens, but in the already opened OOo-Writer on Desktop 2.
This may be intentional, but I think kde allows some customization of this behaviour. I can't say for sure.
It is reproducable with OOo-Writer and Adobe 8 Reader every time, but only in Firefox when I use it with the ERPII system.
As I don't know what an ERPII is, I can't help much there. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIKW0VtTMYHG2NR9URAtE9AJ4gYdyar2ZnPRSZF22iDQUN5ypDuQCeJaXL w/U9KY3zm64Qkmd61WVUN44= =R/QJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 09 May 2008 02:25, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Hi all,
Opening the same application, like OpenOffice.org or Firefox on 4 different desktops causes confusion when a new link is started in e.g. Firefox or a new document or spreadsheet is opened from Konqueror.
When a new link is opened in a new window, sometimes it opens in one of the other Desktops. I have to search all desktops to find the newly opened window. Similarly, if a new document is opened with a right click and the "Open with ..." is selected for the appropriate application, it seems to open where the last active session of the application was used. It is sometimes quite annoying when U forget that it may be opened somewhere else, and U click a second time. Is this normal behaviour to open files in other desktops than the one the start is initiated?
I make little use of OOo, but I use Firefox extensively. You can configure its response to a "remote" (from another application) request to open a URL. The built-in options are: - Replace content of current tab in the most recently viewed window - Open a new tab in the most recently viewed windows (*) - Open a new Window (on the desktop of the most recently viewed window, I think) (*) You have some control over the newly opened tabs: - Active or not - Adjacent to currently active tab - At the right-hand side of the tab bar Furthermore, the remote opening protocol offers some control to override these user-configured defaults. I have a pair of scripts that I use to open URLs from the command line. They're called "firetab" and "firewin." I gather you can guess what each does. To my knowledge, Firefox does not know about virtual desktops as such. I think the only thing you might possibly take advantage of is the ability to name a view (tab or window) and the ability to direct remote links to a specific view (using a custom script akin to my firetab and firewin scripts). You'd have to "pre-prime" these named views within Firefox windows on the complement of desktops you like. I have a vaguely similar situation to yours, though I've never found it to be problematic enough to try to get more out of Firefox than I outlined above. I almost always have several Firefox windows and many tabs open (right now, it's 8 windows and 73 tabs). They're roughly thematically organized and when I'm opening new browser link I first bring the appropriate Firefox window to the front and then activate the link in the application in which I encountered that link (KMail being the principal case). I most often use firetab to open HTML files stored locally (firetab and firewin distinguish http; / https: URLs from file: URLs and plain old Unix path name URIs).
:-)
Al
I hope that's at least informative, if not entirely helpful. I've attached my firetab and firewin scripts. They're very short and self-contained. Randall Schulz
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