begin quoting Brad Beyenhof as of Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:25:02PM -0700:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:08 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> > How do I, on VD#1, start up an xterm on VD#2 and VD#3 from the
> > command-line?
>
> Well, *I've* never found myself wanting to do that, so it's flexible
> enough for *me.* :)
Fair 'nuff.
I still want to know.
[snip]
> > For which window-managers?
>
> Again with the window-managers, about which I'm still ignorant... and
> undesirably so. Please enlighten me. I've never explicitly installed a
> window manager other than the default on any of my currently-running
> distros. I understand that the DE and the WM are separate, but the
> extent of that separation remains a mystery to me.
I don't use a DE, so I'm just as ignorant of the separation, but from
the other direction.
[snip]
> > 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.
>
> Well, once a window is open on a VD, you don't want new windows in
> that app to automatically get sucked over to that VD regardless of
> where you currently are, right? That's what Spaces does, and it sucks.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
I suppose I really want a per-application policy.
> > It's a DWIM situation. There's no way to win.
>
> CentOS+GNOME+${defaultWM} is a win for me, and because I like it that
> way (except for the OpenOffice action you mention above) everything
> else sucks.
All hardware sucks. All software sucks. Down, not across.
-- Motto of ASR
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Why am I sometimes unsuccessful in starting a new Eterm from the icon?
Stewart Stremler
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