[openbox] Openbox - Restore window to current desktop

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:06:01 -0400
Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
| On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Anthony Thyssen
| <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>wrote:
| 
| >
| > The gnome panel minimized window handler  "Window List"
| > has a preference pannel that allows you to see minimized
| > windows in other desktops.  This works well.
| >
| > It also has a preference to "restore to current workspace"
| > (See attached)
| >
| 
| The EMWH spec is completely non-present in how to implement this stuff, so
| every panel sends and WM handles panel requests differently.
| 
| > With openbox this does not work.  When you try to restore the
| > specific window becomes bolded, but does not map onto any desktop.
| >
| > Could this be a bug?
| >
| 
| Somehow, it expects the window to be moved to the current desktop without
| requesting that it be moved there.  The bug is the spec not saying anything
| about how to do this.. but they could do better in the panel to make it work
| in other WMs, or to make it match others.
| 
| > Can anyone suggest a way to un-minimize windows to the current desktop?
| 
| 
| At least with gnome panel and Openbox in git (work branch), either option
| focuses the window on its original desktop.
| 

So your saying there is no way :-(

Ho Hum...
So maybe it is time to move to a different panel system.

Is there a panel program that is a little more responsive to
such user requests?

I am not after a flame war, just a indication of way I should use
panel X   over panel Y



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