On 2021-05-25 05:09:50 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2021 02:19:08 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > Anno domini 2021 Tue, 25 May 03:55:57 -0500 > > > > J Leslie Turriff scripsit: > > > Is there a way, while starting a program, to tell it which desktop to > > > appear on (before it opens its window)? > > > I looked at the various Window-specific settings (right-click the > > > mini-icon in the menu bar), and there's lots of things that can be set > > > there, but not the desktop. I also looked at kdcop for several kinds > > > of windows, but if there's something in there, I can't recognize it. > > > > hope I get the translation right: > > > > window menu /miniicon -> extended -> special settings for this window (or > > program) -> check "workspace" and select the one you want it to go. > > > > Nik > > At the risk of repeating Nik, here is what I've been doing since KDE3: > > #1 (quickie fix) > Right-click at the top bar of any open application dialogue; then choose > <To Desktop> to shift the application to whatever desktop you want. This > choice will not persist, but gets the item moved temporarily to Desktop X. > > #2 (permanent) > Right-click at top bar of application, then choose <Advanced> / <Special > Window Settings>. A new dialogue window will appear. Choose <Geometry>, > then click <Desktop>, choose whatever desktop you want. Just to the left of > your desktop choices is a menu item which ought to show the default setting > of <Do Not Affect>; change this to <Force>, or whatever best suits your > needs. (Also, <Remember>, <Apply Intially>, etc., but mostly <Force> is > best if you want an application always to open in its own special window.) > > For example, all my browsers open in Window 4; Kmail is always in Window 3, > KPDF in Window 9, Konqueror in Window 12, all shells/terminals/consoles in > Window 11, and so on ... which keeps things better organized in my own > little world, rather than just letting everything flop open in whatever > window I happen to be. It's pretty annoying if I have 20 docs open, all of > the same type, but spread across several different windows and mixed with > other kinds of windows. > > #3 (a little tip) > For some applications, continue on to choose <Advanced> / <Special Window > Settings> / <Workarounds>. Here you may find the choices under <Focus > stealing prevention> to be useful. Sometimes an application hogs resources, > you'll wonder why you can't get things to happen, as you sit there and wait > for a minute or two. By clicking <High> or even <Extreme>, you will find > that some of these small annoyances cease to bother you. > > I hope this is of some help to yourself and others. (I've been doing it > like this since 2006 or so.) It's one of those features that seem to be > missing in many other DEs, or if the feature exists, it doesn't work so > well as in TDE. > > Bill I might also mention that another way to do this is with Control Center => Desktop => Window-Specific Settings, which provides a list of current settings for various windows, and the ability to add/change/remove. (Why would move up/down be useful here?) Now, for the rest of my question, is there a way to alter these settings programmatically (e.g. via DCOP or...)? Leslie -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.9 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
