At my day job I currently use a Solaris box running CDE for both development and production tasks. Because of the number of systems involved I have about 40 terminal windows active all the time, and there are people around me who have even more. While there are all terminal windows they are being used for totally different things - some are for development, some are database logins, some are product system logins - there is certainly a grouping by function there. My system has to be very flexible in that for a given task I may need to use any combination of those windows at a time, so using workspaces doesn't make sense to me - I'd be assured of almost never having the right set of windows in the same workspace. I'm looking to move to a Linux/Gnome box, but the problem is that with CDE I could have the minimized icons for the different sets of terminal windows grouped in various places on the desktop, but these days minimized icons tend to go to a taskbar, and having 40 items in a taskbar would be a big mess. Since they're ALL terminal windows (just used for different things) stacking them by program doesn't work. What I'm wondering is there any way to give hints to the window manager under Gnome which would override the grouping on the toolbar so while there all terminal windows I could tell gnome to stack all the terminals used for database, production, development, and so on? I am aware that some terminal emulators have a tabbed interface but that doesn't work for me either - for one thing that means I can't see two of the tabs at once, and also the different windows might be stretched to different dimensions (for a wide query I often have a window stretched across both displays in Xinerama mode). I can't believe that there aren't other developers out there who have similar requirements, but haven't found a good solution to this. While CDE is supposed to be available, it is old/rotting and I'd like to be able to do this with modern tools. Does anyone have suggestions how this could be attacked? Steve _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
