[nzlug] Firing up applications on the right screen

[Ian Beardslee]

-----Original Message-----
From: Vik Olliver <>
To: NZLUG Mailing List <nzlug at linux.net.nz>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:39:07 +1300
Subject: Re: [nzlug] Firing up applications on the right screen

> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 11:34 +1300, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> > Not exactly the same but along the same sort of lines ... running
> > Ubuntu
> > and wanting to get an app to keep itself to one workspace.  Eg, I
> like
> > to
> > have my IRC/messaging running in Workspace 4.  But it always seems to
> > open
> > up in the workspace I am in ... an inconvienence rather than
> > critical :-)
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> KDE, Gnome or other? I know how to do it in KDE.
> 

Gnome.  Sometimes I think of moving back to KDE, there are times when it
seems more configurable.  But then I can imagine myself spending tooo much
time configuring ... even as it is still trying to get the taskbar(s)
behaving how I had them in windows :-(