[openbox] Openbox - Restore window to current desktop

[Dana Jansens]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Anthony Thyssen
<A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>wrote:

>
> 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 :-(
>

Not without having gnome-panel move the window to the desktop it wants to
focus it on.


>
> 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
>

I know tint is very popular with people who don't use gnome.

- Dana
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