On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:24:44PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 06 Mar 2002 15:33:18 +0100, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:51:08PM +0100, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> > > > I have a suggestion for a new command:
> > > > Hide
> > > > This would hide a window. Yes I know it's possible to specify that certain
> > > > (or all) windows should not have an icon. But I got an idea to have an
> > > > option (in the root menu for example) to hide my pager, but still it could
> > > > be handy somtimes to be able to do a normal iconification.
> > >
> > > You can put windows on an unused desk to hide them:
> > >
> > > MoveToDesk 0 -123456
> > >
> > > and to show them again:
> > >
> > > MoveToDesk
> > >
> > > Is that good enough?
> >
> > Yes. That'll do.
>
> Just remember that issuing this command crashes the gnome pager that is
> swallowed in the gnome panel, it is crashed even on "MoveToDesk 0 50".
> EWMH also says negative desktop numbers are not allowed, so there may be
> more applications that stop working. Just tested - both GNOME panel and
> kicker (KDE panel) crashed after "GotoDesk 0 -12".
Yeah, I remember the discussion about negative desktop numbers on
the ewmh mailing list. Nobody seemed to care about compatibility
with existing window managers. Anyway, you can think of this as
being very large positive numbers, so dumping core is still a bug
in these applications. If you like, report it to the GNOME/KDE
people.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Thu Mar 07 2002 - 03:20:40 GMT