Icon on one desktop but not all desktops

[Greg Booth]

On 10/9/07, Macario Valle <macariov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 09:21 -0500, Greg Booth wrote:
> > > > OK, so I'm not into the mutiple desktop thing much, but I do keep my
> > > > VirtualBox running my winblows crap ( for school ugh ) on Desktop two
> > > > and was wondering if there's a way to keep an icon on Desktop 2 (
> > > > Innotek VirtualBox of course ) and not have it display on other
> > > > desktops.
> > > >
> > > > I checked options in the icon but don't really see anything like this,
> > > > and honestly I bet it can't be done.
> > >
> > > Ah.  The desktop specification is at
> > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
> > > and doesn't say anything about this :-(
> > > --
> > > derek
> >
> > About what I figured, I just didn't know where to go looking for the
> > information. Thanks Derek.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> On the Taskbar do a right click and choose "Configure panel" from the
> resulting menu.  On the resulting screen click on the last icon on the
> left called "Taskbar".  Uncheck the "Show Windows for all Desktops"
> option.  This will make the taskbar show only the programs running for
> the current desktop.
> If you mean the shortcut icon on the desktop to only be able to run it
> from a particular desktop, You are out of luck, in KDE as well as Gnome.
>

Yeah, I was wanting to just have the one icon on the desktop for
Desktop 2 because that's the only place I use it. I didn't think it'd
be something that could be done, but I've been surprised before...

Greg

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