begin quoting Brad Beyenhof as of Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:19:43PM -0700: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:06 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: [snip] > > I wouldn't mind hearing more of that, keeping in mind that you have to > > be talking to me, rather than to one who is familiar with the OS X > > environment. > > Well, than I'll reverse what I said before. In Linux, you have a lot > of control over which applications (and which windows) appear on which > virtual desktops.
Details? How do I, on VD#1, start up an xterm on VD#2 and VD#3 from the command-line? > The default is for newly-created windows to appear > on the current desktop, regardless of the number and kind of windows > that already exist elsewhere. For which window-managers? > It's very flexible, and it allows you to > create desktops that focus on various *tasks*. If a particular app > (for instance, a Web browser) has separate windows containing > information for multiple tasks, it's simple to just have the various > browser windows open on different virtual desktops. My virtual desktops are named according to their primary task. :) > In contrast, Spaces on OS X is all about segregating *applications*. > In the preferences, you can tell certain applications to always open > their windows on a particular Space, but it doesn't get more > finely-grained than that (like the Devil's Pie filters on window > title, etc.). In addition, if an application is running, its new > windows are always created on the Space it's already occupying. So, if > your browser is open on Space 2 and you click a link in Space 4, you > have to travel over to Space 2 in order to see the page rendered. > Sure, you can move the different windows to separate Spaces after > they're created, but new windows are always grouped together. This is > a major pain, and it's why I haven't found any real use for the > feature on my Macs. WindowMaker seems to do this now. I don't recall it doing this before. There are times when it's annoying not to do so (I run an application, the splash screen comes up, I changes to a different desktop to let the app finish starting up (hello star/open office, I'm talking about you), and whoops! It's on the wrong desktop), and other times when I want show-up-on-the-current-screen behavior. It's a DWIM situation. There's no way to win. -- Gleefully remaining eternally unhappy. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
