[openbox] Openbox - Restore window to current desktop

[Dana Jansens]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Anthony Thyssen
<A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>wrote:

>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:20:31 +0200
> Alexey Korop <akorop at gmail.com> wrote:
> | Anthony Thyssen wrote on 11.11.2010 01:30:
> | > |>  |>   Can anyone suggest a way to un-minimize windows to the current
> desktop?
> |
> | > |     The way exists: call You client-list-combined-menu (the middle
> mouse
> | > | button by default), press and hold the Shift key and click desired
> menu
> | > | item.
> | > |
> | > That de-iconized the window but it then jumps you to the desktop on
> which that
> | > resides.   It does NOT open that window on the current desktop!
> |      Hm... indeed, this behavior absent in the 3.4.11.2 but present in
> | the current Dana's "work" branch
> | (http://git.icculus.org/?p=dana/openbox.git;a=shortlog;h=work). I don't
> | like released version due to horizontal Alt-Tab window list, as in the
> | Windows. Vertical list is more useful.
> |
> | Yours truly Alexey
>
> I still like the gnome 'grouped' tabs along the bottom of the display.
>
> Often have 12 to 20 xterm windows open all going to different servers
> so being able to open the horizontal alligned group, vertically upward
> then selecting the appropriately xterm window is important to me.
>
> However I do find it painful that the window will only open on the
> original workspace and not the current one.  Or if open on another
> workspace it moves to my current workspace.
>
> Using right button does pop up sub-menus for each window but the options
> also seem unhelpful, other than to make a window visible in all
> workspaces, which is also not desirable.
>
> The current situation limits my use of multiple workspaces.
>
>
>
> I looked at other 'panels' but found them more limited than the gnome
> panel, which I only used because it was available by default.  I am not
> after 'pretty' or 'flash', just one that works well and can be configured
> to do what I want.
>
> Oh well the search goes on for a 'better' panel.


Well, it would be a pretty minor patch to make the gnome panel send a better
sequence of messages to open a window on the current desktop.  If you are
into that.  It would be worth bringing it up in the gnome bugzilla also if
you have some faith in that sorta thing.

- Dana


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