Re: [Wsmanager-devel] great tool

[Jim D. <jda...@ac...>]

On Wed, Feb 18, Ka-Hing Cheung <ja...@ja...> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:52:32AM -0500, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> > >- having a window appear in every workspace
> > >  (seems to happen in certain cases now anyway);
> > 
> > What do you mean by this?
> 
> Sticky window aka pinned window aka "Put on all workspaces"

Exactly.  There are some windows/apps that I would always like to have around,
no matter which workspace I'm in.  There's reference in the source code to
sticky windows, but there are comments about them being hard-wired, and I'm
not sure it's referring to the same thing.

> > >- cycling through the windows in a workspace with a hotkey;
> > 
> > Command-Tilde already does this (it's built-in)

Command-Tilde only cycles through the windows in the current application.  If
I have a bunch of windows open in the current workspace (in different apps), I
would like to be able to cycle through them all.

> Do you mean cycle only those windows that are in a particular workspace, or
> all?

The former.  I want to be able to cycle through just the windows that are in 
the current workspace, and not see any of the others.

Gnome Workspaces support this, with <alt><tab>.  It really makes Workspaces
useful, since it effectively makes other windows go away, until you switch
to their workspace.

Again, I think the current DesktopManager is great; these just happen to
be features that (I think) would make them more useful.

-Jim