Re: Accessing the workspace switcher

[Leenard Bill <metazoan2000 yahoo com>]

Thanks ... I'll look into Devil's Pie.

I was told that libwnck is where I should look but I'm
having trouble finding the documentation for it.  Can
anyone point me in the right direction?

Thx,
Bill

--- Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 15:59, Leenard Bill wrote:
> > I need to access the workspace switcher in Gnome
> > programmatically.  I'm writing an application
> start-up
> > utility that launches pieces of the application in
> > various workspaces.  Currently, administrators do
> it
> > manually by clicking on each workspace, running
> the
> > processes for the application in that workspace,
> and
> > then clicking on the next workspace, etc.
> 
> Checkout devilspie[1] -- this can catch applications
> starting and
> relocate them to different workspaces (amongst other
> things).  This plus
> the usual panel launchers might do what you want.
> 
> However, if you really want a workspace switcher,
> its a widget in
> libwnck.
> 
> Ross
> 
> [1]
> http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
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