Re: GNOME pager: Moving windows between desktops

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

> Toralf Lund wrote:
> >
> > I've asked this question before, but I didn't get a satisfactory answer,
> > so I'll try again:
> >
> > Is there a pager for GNOME that will allow me to move windows from one
> > virtual desktop to another, using drag & drop or otherwise?
> >
> > Someone claimed earlier that this was possible in the desk guide applet,
> > but I can't get this to work. I tried installing gnome-core 1.1.2 just
> > to see if the pager had changed, but apparently it hadn't.
>
> I don't get this to work with Gnome either.  What window manager are you
> using?

I've been using Enlightenment 0.16 for a while, but switched to Sawmill
recently, mainly just to try it out. It is better than E in many ways, but
the lack of a good pager is certainly a drawback.

> The E pager does this and very well.  You can move windows from pager
> desktop to pager desktop.  One thing I liked was that you can actually
> pick a window from the pager and drop it on the REAL current desktop.

Yep. The E pager is brilliant. Maybe someone could extract this part of the E
source code and rewrite it as a stand-alone, GNOME compliant pager?


- Toralf