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[Douglas Pollard]

Bo Grimes wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
   Thanks  guys, it  sometimes seems so hard.  When told how, it usually 
so easy and  makes me wonder if I'm all here.          Thanks,
                                                                         
    Doug