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[Douglas Pollard]

Douglas Pollard wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Got back to this  same  problem this morning.  I found I could not move 
these tutorials to the  next window.  They were being opened by Firefox. 
I opened with Open Office org and have each tutorial in a seperate 
desktop.   This is a very handy thing when trying new things in 
Cinelerra, one click opens a tutorial and I can refer to a second one 
instantly.  This is a good way for anyone to learn how to use the 
Terminal or Gnome or any other part of Ubuntu. I find the difference in 
the wording in the different tutorials opens up my understanding very 
quickly and makes unclear things understood without wracking my brain.   
                           Thanks Guys
                                                    Doug