Re: Apple X11 and CodeTek VirtualDesktop
Re: Apple X11 and CodeTek VirtualDesktop
- Subject: Re: Apple X11 and CodeTek VirtualDesktop
- From: Matthew Klahn <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:07:57 -0600
Hi, everyone. Sorry that I haven't been able to respond to these
questions for a couple of days; we were preparing an update for
DockExtender that was taking all my time.
Aamer, your question is a very good one. We are researching this to see
if we can identify what X11 application a particular Apple X11 window
belongs to; that is, when you run Apple X11, we see only the
Carbon/Cocoa window that is owned by Apple X11 and NOT the X11R6
application that is the actual owner. While I do notice that the title
of each window seems to be the name of the application (i.e. "xterm"),
these titles can change as each application sees fit and aren't
reliable enough for us to use. Therefore, we'll have to see what we can
do to get information out of the X Server by the Window ID or some
other bit of information so that we can assign the X11 application to a
proper Desktop.
Also, the problem that everyone is encountering with the overlapping
windows not working in terms of getting the proper focus is most likely
due to a problem when we 'hide' the windows. I'll be contacting Haroon
directly so that I can tell him how we can fix the problem. Hopefully
it can be incorporated in a future update, maybe with some help from
Adrian Umpleby who has already corrected that problem in OroborOSX.
Thanks, everyone for your feedback. We'll see about assigning X11
applications to particular desktops and if anyone has any
ideas/suggestions on how to retrieve the application name, I'd be happy
to hear them! :)
Thanks,
--
Matthew S. Klahn
Software Architect, CodeTek Studios, Inc.
On Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003, at 15:20 America/Chicago, Aamer Akhter wrote:
I agree. Thank-you to both Apple and Codetek for X11 and virtual
desktop. I
use both all day, and it would be hard to get work done with them.
I do have have one request though, and I'm not sure if anything can be
done
about it. Virtualdesktop has a feature where you can assign
applications to
stay in specific desktops. Ie vnc sessions stay in desktop 3 etc.
This doesn't seem to work with applications that are running under
X11. For
example if I run vncviewer it will stay in which ever desktop that
launched
it, and will not be moved to the vnc desktop. I think this is because
virtualdesktop thinks that the windows is just another X11 application
window and leaves it alone.
Anyway, great job on 0.2!
--
Aamer Akhter / email@hidden
NSITE - cisco Systems
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