[openbox] Firefox's workspace-hopping behavior

Mikael Magnusson lists at bak.och.fr.am
Tue Oct 21 13:01:18 EDT 2008


On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Jake LeMaster wrote:

> If I have Firefox open in a workspace and click a link (in a Pidgin IM
> window, for example) in a different workspace, Firefox is moved from the
> workspace it's supposed to be in and imposes itself onto the workspace the
> link was clicked in, causing me to have to manually send it back to its
> previous workspace.
>
> This is extremely annoying behavior that is addressed in at least some other
> window managers. I know for sure that it doesn't happen with pekwm (by
> default), and in the XFCE wm there's a setting (activate_action) that you
> can set to "none" that will prevent this.
>
> I've tried setting application autoproperties for Firefox in rc.xml, like
> specifying which desktop FF should always be in (even though I don't want to
> set such a thing; sometimes I have FF in workspace 2, sometimes in 3, I just
> want it to *stay* in whatever space I launch it in) and setting focus to
> "no", but neither worked.
>
> Does anyone have a solution for this?

You can set something with divertedtabs in about:config to true, and it 
should stay put.

--
Mikael Magnusson



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