[ALUG] How to garden gnome?

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:34:43PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
> I'm looking for a bit of Gnome expertise ...
> 
> Suppose I have a Gnome desktop with a number of "workspaces", say 10.
> 
> What I want to do is "transplant" a window from one workspace to
> another under software control (e.g. a shell script).
> 
> Gnome certainly has an internal mechanism for this, since if you click
> on the little square button at the top left of a window, you get a
> menu which includes options to "Move to Workspace n".
> 
> Is there a way to send a code or signal to a window which would cause
> this to happen?
> 
> A related question: can one program the opening of a window so that it
> is initially "planted" in a chosen workspace?

I think you might want to look at "wmctrl" and "devilspie" programs
(both in Debian under those package names).

J.

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