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quidquam

Member

Registered: 2007-03-24

Posts: 1

Lock Window To Desktop?

Hi,

I created a keyboard shortcut which launches firefox with the contents of the primary clipboard. However, if I am in a different desktop than the one that my firefox window is in, xfce4 will bring the window to my desktop and give it focus when the script is run. I'd like to force firefox to stay on the other (unseen) desktop.

Right now I have a very cludgy work-around:

firefox `xclip -o`
sleep 0.5
wmctrl -r "Mozilla Firefox" -t 2

This forces the firefox window to go back to desktop 2 (where I keep my firefox windows), but if there is a way to keep firefox from coming to my active desktop at all, I'd love to know about it.

joltedbot

Member

Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 3

Re: Lock Window To Desktop?

I am not sure if this resolves your issue but I had a similar problem and this helped.

It is covered in this bug:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2961

And there is a fix here:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2961#c13

munthe

Member

Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 5

Re: Lock Window To Desktop?

You could try using devil's pie to make all your firefox windows appear on the second workspace...
Don't know if it does exactly what you want. but it is a try worth I think.

Good luck