Re: configuring XQuartz-wm questions
Re: configuring XQuartz-wm questions
- Subject: Re: configuring XQuartz-wm questions
- From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:41:11 -0400
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jim Graham
<email@hidden> wrote:
1) How do I configure it to place certain X apps (e.g., xbiffs, a couple
of Tcl/Tk apps, etc.), on all virtual desktop (spaces, I think
they're called on Apple) while leaving other X apps (e.g., xterms)
on only a specific one?
You don't. This is a combination of a shortcoming in the X11 protocol adapter (all X11 windows are considered to be the same "application", from the standpoint of Core Graphics) and of Core Graphics (all windows of an application must be constrained the same way: using Terminal as a native example, you can't even tell it to stick one Terminal window in Space 1 and a different one in Space 2 without placing them there manually, and if you mark Terminal windows as all spaces then *all* Terminal windows will show on all spaces).
2) What is the right way to change window managers, should I want to
try ctwm again? (The first time, no window manager ran at all.)
$ mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d
$ echo 'USERWM=/path/to/ctwm' >~/.xinitrc.d/90-wm.sh
$ chmod +x ~/.xinitrc.d/90-wm.sh
Don't simply create a .xinitrc; this can cause various kinds of breakage because required programs don't get started properly.
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