On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:42:42AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dominik Vogt [dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de] wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:44:59AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Recently I started using multiple desktops, before I was using one
> > > desktop with many virtual screens.
> > >
> > > However, I have one little problem when using mozilla with it.
> > > If mozilla starts on desktop 1, it tends to remember the desktop. Now, even if I
> > > move the mozilla window to desktop 2 manually, when there is a popup window from
> > > mozilla, it always goes back to desktop 1. And this is really anonying...
> > >
> > > It seems other apps are not affected, so I guess it is a mozilla thing not fvwm.
> > > But is there any work around?
> >
> > Ah, I think I know what you mean. When a mozilla popup window
> > like the download dialog is opened, fvwm puts it on the same desk
> > as the main mozilla window (which is correct) and then switches to
> > that desk (which you don't like). This is because the popup
> > dialog has the window group hint set. To disable this behaviour
> > you can use the SkipMapping style:
> >
> > Style mozilla* SkipMapping
>
> Thanks for the help. This helps but it is still a semi working solution for me.
> With SkipMapping turned on, it is now better because even if I am in a different
> desktop, the new popup window will not cause fvwm to switch to the orginal
> desktop. But I really want the new popup window to start on the current
> desk/page I am in.
>
> Eg:
>
> Start Mozilla on Desk 1
> Start another Mozilla window on Desk 1 using Ctrl-N
> Now manually move this second mozilla window to Desk 2
> In Desk 2, on the second mozilla window, press Ctrl-N to start the third mozilla window
>
> The third mozilla window will be placed in Desk 1 but not my current desk 2.
Yes. Currently fvwm keeps all windows in a window group on the
same desk as the group leader. Although I consider this a mozilla
bug (it tries to force you to treat all its windows as related),
there may be a new style option to tell fvwm to ignore the window
group hint in the future. You may be able to move these windows
from FvwmEvent, though.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Tue Feb 27 2001 - 20:56:59 GMT