[openbox] Binding of applications to the desktop

[Knute]

First off, I KNOW I'm top posting and that certain sensibilities will be touched off, but right now,  I don't care.

Secondly, the "send to desktop" option wasn't what they were looking for, so you can put your screenshots away.

To the origonal poster, and your question of binding a window to a certain desktop.... I'm guessing that you want all, say Firefox windows to come up on desktop 2 or something.

In order to do that, you need to go into the rc.xml (located in ~/.config/openbox) and add a section under applications that would look something like this:

<applications>
   <application class="whatever">
       <desktop>2</desktop>
        .
        .
   </application>
   <application role="something">
      .
      .
   </application>
</applications>


It's well documented in the default rc.xml file.

Knute


--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> wrote:

> From: Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl>
> Subject: Re: [openbox] Binding of applications to the desktop
> To: "openbox mailing list" <openbox at icculus.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 4:46 PM
> Xavier Toth <txtoth at gmail.com>
> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Johan Vromans<jvromans at squirrel.nl>
> wrote:
> > >> How can I bind an application to a desktop
> during a session?
> > >
> > > The standard openbox system menu contains an
> entry "Send to desktop".
> > 
> > I'm using 3.4.7.2-7 and I don't see this menu item,
> what version are you using?
> 
> 3.4.7.2-8 but it has been there for ages.
> 
> The system menu is the one that you get when you click the
> top-left
> icon in the title bar.
> 
> See the attachment (if the mailing list accepts it ...)
> 
> -- Johan
> 
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