Re: working in an environment with LOTS of open windows

[Nelson Benítez <gnel cenobioracing com>]

Steve Prior escribió:
> I've been playing around a little with gnome-terminal windows and have 
> questions about how they become "stacked" in the toolbar when a lot of 
> them are open:
>
> 1. Is it possible to tell the taskbar how many of them can be opened 
> before they are stacked?  I'd like to reduce this number very low (stack 
> them as soon as a second one is opened).

 I think there are gconf keys for that and also a gui to modify them in 
the panel properties (right click on a blank space of panel and go to 
preferences/properties sorry I'm not on linux right now) if I remember 
well you can tell it whether to stack them or not, or begin to stack 
them when there are N instances of the program.

> 2. Since the taskbar only stacks the same program (xterm windows are 
> stacked together, gnome-terminal windows are stacked in their own pile),
> is it possible to launch for example two gnome-terminals with their own
> "stacking ids" which would put them in different piles on the taskbar?

You could try to achieve that by making hard links of the gnome-terminal 
binary, so when you launch them they are treated as different 
applications and so having separate stacks on the panel.

> If I can do both of these things then I could easily set up different 
> stacks of terminal windows - one each for development, production, 
> database, and then each stack would have lots of windows for each.

Try with making hard links for each type as I said before...