On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:10:51PM +0100, Per Olofsson wrote:
> 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/

Thanks, that gets the job done.  However, I did have to make a couple of
minor changes, as the stable ion version uses PWM_FRAME_ID rather than
ION_FRAME_ID.  You might want to make a note on your website that
ionlaunch only works as-is for the stable version of ion.

Paul


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