Re: Mailcheck question.

[D-Man <dsh8290 rit edu>]

There is a way.  You could create a program that interacts with the WM and asks the WM to switch to a particular workspace.  (Unless the WM doesn't allow this, I guess it would work).

-D


On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 15:39:19 Jorge Garcia wrote:
 | I'm giving GNOME a good ol' road testing, and so far I like what I
 | see. But I have a question about the mailcheck applet, which should be 
 | easy to answer, but I haven't found the answer anywhere. 
 | 
 | In the applet properties, you can select some program to run when the
 | applet is clicked (for example, run balsa). But the problem is that I
 | usually have my mail program running already, and clicking on the applet
 | will just launch a new instance of the program (I tried "xterm -e pine",
 | which is the mailer program I use). 
 | 
 | Ideally, I would like the result of clicking on the applet to be that I
 | get switched to the desktop where my mailer program is running, and the
 | focus is set to that window. Is there a way of saying this in the "execute
 | when clicked" area?
 | 
 | Thanks for any help...
 | 
 | Jorge
 | 
 | 
 | 
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