About Workspace

Angel Fish dolphinysj at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 08:44:08 UTC 2009


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Thanks for your detailed illustration.It's helpful to me.Thank you!
Angel Fish
2009/4/20 John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

>  Angel Fish wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>> When I opening the firefox in Workspace1, then turn to Workspace2 and open
>> the Terminal. While the Terminal is opening, turn back to Workspace1. As a
>> result, Terminal is opened in Workspace1 only. It's the first time I use
>> Fedora 10(also Linux), so I am not sure whether it's a bug or not. Do
>> someone meet the same scene?
>> PS:The Fedora is running on the Sun VirtualBox.
>>
>>
>>  When you start an application, which workspace it opens in can depend on
> things that occur after you click "start" or type the command, or whatever.
> If you want consistent behaviour, don't change workspaces so quickly.
>
> You can move applications between workspaces, right-click on the titlebar
> for options.
>
> There is a bug in that some applications don't remember which workspace
> they were in, and when you restart your session (for example, by logging off
> with the "save session" option, then logon again they restart, but in the
> wrong workspace. A major offender here is firefox, I somethimes have as many
> as 30 web browser windows open at once (I have been cleaning up, I only have
> 14 Firefox, 8 Seamonkey and a few Konquerors at the moment), and it's a pain
> to have firefox restart them all in the same workspace.
>
> I presume that, since you said "workspace" that you are using xfce. Other
> desktop environments use other terms.
>
> It is not like Desktops on Windows, or Spaces on OS X.
>
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> Cheers
> John
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