Re: [e-users] Trying to replicate my workflow from KDE

[Dale S. <dd...@fr...>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:04:26 -0500
Zachary Sarver <zac...@gm...> wrote:

> On 07/31/2013 10:46 AM, Dale Snell wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:48:41 -0500
> > Zachary Sarver <zac...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm in the process of switching to Enlightenment 0.17.3, mostly
> >> because I'm on a netbook. I'd like to either replicate my setup
> >> from KDE. In KDE, I had several desktops, one for research, one for
> >> teaching, one for coding, et cetera, each with its own set of
> >> plasmoids (gadgets.) The plasmoid I get the most out of is Folder
> >> View, which I have set up to show several different folders, with
> >> or without filters, depending on desktop.
> >>
> >> In short, I need two things.
> >>
> >> 1. A way to put different gadgets on different desktops
> > In Shelf Settings => Desktop of each shelf, you'll find the
> > settings "Show on all Desktops" and "Show on specified Desktops",
> > which will do what you want.
> Unfortunately, that only works for the shelf and the gadgets
> contained in that shelf. I wanted to do this for desktop gadgets as
> well.

Yeah, I don't know of any way to do that.  That's not to say there
isn't such a way, but I don't know what it is.  Maybe one of the other
folks here can help.  Guys?

> Moreover, it makes audacious bug out, becoming unminimizeable
> and showing itself on all desktops.

??  Audacious works fine here.  Well, as fine as Audacious ever
works, anyway.

Have you unchecked "View => Put on all Workspaces" in Audacious'
menu?  (I have the xmms-alike interface running, which may have
some different options than the GTK+ interface.)  I normally have
Audacious in the SE corner of all my desktops, playing the local
classical radio station (KQAC, allclassical.org -- great station).
But I just tried unsetting that option, and Audacious obediently
restricted itself to one desktop.

> Apparently I can't have more than one copy of an IBox? Adding another 
> IBox just shows me the stuff that's already in my other IBox. I
> really need multiple distinct copies of these.

At the bottom of the IBox Settings, you'll find "Show windows from
all desktops" and "Show windows from active desktop".  You want
the latter.  This way you can start a program on one desktop,
iconify it, and it will show up in the IBox, but only when that
particular desktop is active.

You can have more than one IBox on a desktop.  If you restrict one
to display only what's on one desktop, you can have the other one
show everything.  I'm not sure of the utility of such a set-up,
but you can do it.  :-)

--Dale

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