From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 22:03:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-gnome@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCB7106567F for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:03:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4FE8FC19 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:03:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: (qmail 17667 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2008 22:03:16 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 3 Jul 2008 22:03:16 -0000 Message-ID: <486D4A33.7080705@telenix.org> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:52:51 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD GNOME Mailing List X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: getting my startup stuff working right X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:03:18 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have two sorts of problems involved in getting the startup stsuff right, and because I don't really understand how Gnome handles that, I'm not doing a very good job of this. Let me explain the two problems, they might even have a single answer (I hope). First, the Konsoles I run. I like the KDE Konsole over the gnome-terminal, but I think my problem would be the same for either: I run a 3X3 desktop (9 of them). I want one Konsole on desktop 2 (with 6 terminals) and another one on desktop 3, with 4 desktops. My problem is, they all seem to go to the same desktop. It's very often desktop 2, but sometimes its 1 (hasn't been 3 yet). I also want to run a regular xterm on both desktop 1 and 5, run from a tiny one-line script in my home/bin I call mkterm. My problem here is that they never do where I want them to go, and I haven't any idea whatsoever how to control the placement of these guys. Another problem is that, very often, extra items get run seemingly on their own. Something like having 4 of the xterms show up on desktops 1 and 5, and the only way I can detect this is to go desktop to desktop, moving everything I see to check if there are too many somewhere. Happens sometimes with the Konsoles also, but the xterms do it more often. The only way I have them start up is because I manually set everything up on my first session, and relied on metacity's memory to restart everything. The two browsers I have work very, very reliably for this, never having extra sessions or being in the wrong desktop. So, if you could point me at a doc which could smarten me up, I'd appreciate it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhtSjMACgkQz62J6PPcoOnyXQCdH1//VCxVvdAuozPn+TbGaL1B ZUAAn1MsPh6+AyUAv0XDTcgXZSi/DBSm =aWp7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----