Re: X11 and Spaces
Re: X11 and Spaces
- Subject: Re: X11 and Spaces
- From: Mike Summers <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 20:07:15 -0400
Thanks so much Tom! It works!!!
I now feel comfortable moving my entire lab to 10.5.
Thanks again!
Mike
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:53:36PM -0400, Tom Scogland wrote:
> I used virtue desktops also, and things like fluxbox and other such virtual
> desktop apps, the following quote from my post the other day contains the
> information you need to make spaces behave in a sane manner. I think it
> requires 1.5.2 though so you know.
> "You can suppress that behavior, I found out about that a couple weeks ago
> and couldn't be happier, instructions here
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008021122525348"
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mike Summers <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > X11 works great for me now. I use lots of scientific X-based apps,
> > and they all work as expected.
> >
> > The real problem I have now resides with how Spaces works.
> > It seems to have been designed for people who want to run
> > all Xterm apps on one desktop, all word apps on a different
> > desktop, etc. I know it is currently possible to open
> > apps on one desktop and then drag a window to a different
> > desktop, but this is not ideal for those of us who divide
> > up our desktops based on projects, not applications. This
> > used to work really well with Virtue Desktops (one of my
> > favorite "enabling apps" of all time).
> >
> > For example, I'd like to open a Terminal window in one Space,
> > then go to a different space and open another Terminal window
> > in that New space.
> >
> > Can you point me to an Apple site where I can submit this request?
> >
> > Or, is it possible that I've missed a preference setting that
> > would allow me to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
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Michael F. Summers
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County
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Baltimore, MD 21250
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