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

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