Sean Christopher A Nichols wrote: >> Why does it do this? >> > > Because it's defined to. :-P > >> Or rather how do I get it NOT to behave in this manner. To open in >> the window I started it in and not pull the others into that workspace? >> > > [my-prompt]$ gedit --new-window mydocument.txt > OK. I tried that. And the doc opened stays in the workspace opened in, and does not drag other gedit windows over. But cut/paste still does not work right. Say I cut something from Firefox. Then I go to paste it into a gedit window. What gets the paste is the last opened gedit window, not the one currently 'active' (and I had even typed some text into that window prior to the paste). > To get Nautilus to open text (or whatever) documents in a new Window > by default, configure that in Nautilus (by telling it to run the above > command), not in gedit. Where is this? I do not see any setting in Nautilus options. I do see the preferences > more preferences > perferred applications.... _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list