Panel

[Bo Grimes]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:27:11PM -0500, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> I have four desktop icons or small panels on my lower panel.  I have 
> several tutorials in my home directory. I would like to show all three 
> of them in seperate desk tops so I can go back and forth and compare the 
> tutorials as I work in Cinelerra which is in a fourth panel.  I click 
> on  the different panels but the different tutorials all open in the 
> same desk top. Is what I am trying to do not permitted?  Is there a 
> problem that prevents me from getting the tutorials in different 
> desktops.  I hope this makes sense, and if not let me know and I will 
> try to explain better.     Thanks for any help.


What application is opening the tutorials?  Are they web pages?  Are they
Open Office documents?  Whatever application is opening them, right click on
the title bar of that application.  Tell it to move it to the
desktop/workspace you want it on.  Make sure the option isn't ticked for it
to always appear on visible workspace.  Instead, once you have it on the
workspace you want, tell it only on this workspace.

Do this until you have them where you want.  In general if you open an
application on a workspace it tends to stay there by default, unless you
move it, or unless it generates a dialogue box of some sort.  For example,
if you open Synaptic on a workspace, do what you want and then tell it to
apply...if you then switch to another workspace to work, when it gets to the
installation step, that dialogue will pop up on your curent workspace.

All of this applies to Gnome.  If this does not help, telling which specific
applications you're using and what desktop/windows manager might allow for
better help.