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.