[openbox] Making openbox to start new windows on parent desktop.

[Anthony Thyssen]

On 23 Oct 2009 09:23:30 +0200
Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> wrote:

| Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au> writes:
| 
| > You are currently running openbox and somehow you start a script. which
| > you want it to start an application on a different desktop?
| 
| IIUC, the question is: he starts an app while on desktop e.g., #4 and
| switches to desktop e.g., #2. In the mean time the app becomes active
| (it takes some time, like most modern GUI apps, unfortuantely). The
| app now opens its windows on the current desktop, #2. OP wants it to
| open its windows on the desktop where it was originally started.
| 
Okay.  Sorry I do not have a solution for this.

In CTWM, the desktop on which an application runs could be set using xprops
and Xrdb settings.  Not all application allows you to set these from the
command line (though they should if they follow the original X window
standards).

Further changing the xprop after the application starts caused the WM to
immediately move the applications desktop.

I do not know of what facilities OpenBox has for this but it probably
isn't very useful.

Just about all WM's have this type of problem.



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