On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:26:34PM -0500, Paul Pelzl wrote: > > I'm using ion-20020207. I have applied Alejandro Cuervo's "frame" > winprop patch, so I can configure applications to automatically start in > designated frames. > > I'm also running Xnest with a more traditional window manager on one of > the workspaces, to handle some of the less cooperative apps (e.g. GIMP). > Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to configure Xnest to move to > the proper workspace automatically. According to xprop, Xnest does not > return a WM_CLASS. Can that be corrected somehow? I noticed that xprop > has a "-set" flag, but if it is even possible to manually set the class > and instance via that option, then I haven't figured out the proper > syntax yet. > > I guess I'll hack the ion source to handle Xnest if necessary, but it > seems like there should be a better way.
You could use ionlaunch, a little hack I wrote some time ago. It allows you to choose which Ion frame an application will start in through an LD_PRELOAD mechanism. You can get it from: http://kanin.dsv.su.se/ion/ionlaunch/ Ideally there should be more powerful ways to select which windows get what winprops. /Pelle
