25 May
2021
25 May
'21
10:09 a.m.
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:
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
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