Curious behaviour with multiple desktops in F9 KDE
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 22:27:25 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 23:00 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
>
> >>> Is there incidentally, a way of ensuring that
> >>> an application will always open in a particular desktop?
> >>
> >> There is a command line tool available that will let you launch
> >> programs on a specific workspace.
> >> http://www.sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/
>
> > It's part of Fedora 9:
> > wmctrl.x86_64 1.07-3.fc9 installed
>
> But how do you use it?
> I yum-installed it, and tried
> ----------------------------------
> [tim at elizabeth ~]$ wmctrl -r 7 ssh alfred
> [tim at elizabeth ~]$ sudo wmctrl -r 7 ssh alfred
> ----------------------------------
> but neither seemed to have any effect.
What do you expect to happen? Nothing on the man page leads me to
believe that wmctrl will execute a shell command for you. The '-r' is
supposed to raise the indicated window, that's all. If there is no such
window, presumably nothing will happen. RTFM.
OTOH when I do 'wmctrl -d' (supposed to list desktops) I get:
% wmctrl -d
GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:156: failed to allocate 1020346790576176 bytes
aborting...
Aborted
%
poc
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