Re: FVWM: Making an app pop up on the desk where it was started?

From: Felix E. Klee <felix.klee.fvwm_at_gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:25:59 +0200

On Sunday 20 April 2003 18:27, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > It's quite simple: Under KDE when I start an application on a certain
> > desktop, say 2, and switch to another desktop, say 1, then, after being
> > loaded, the application will pop up on desktop 2 without interrupting
> > me working on desktop 1. Note that I'm not sure whether that holds true
> > for absolutely all application and, unfortunately, I can't check it
> > since KDE doesn't start anymore on my system (this might be due to some
> > bugs in XFree86 as part of SuSE 8.2).
>
> You still didn't say which application shows a problem for you.
>
> I just happened to run konqueror to test how a site looks in it and it
> opened a dialog window (transient) on the same desk where the konqueror
> itself runs when I was on another desk.

That's not what I described (although this is another feature I want). Just
try this:
    1. Goto desktop 2
    2. Start Konqueror
    3. Switch to desktop 1
Then Konqueror will pop up on desktop 1. In KDE Konqueror will pop up on
desktop 2.

Felix

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