Re: X server with multiple Windows desktops

Re: X server with multiple Windows desktops

[Jon TURNEY]

On 16/11/2010 20:37, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I'm running this program to give myself multiple Windows (7) desktops:
> 
>   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.aspx
>   Desktops 1.01
>   Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell
>   Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
> 
> I started the Cygwin X server on the 1st desktop, but then tried to
> open a new Xterm from the 2nd desktop.  It of course landed on the
> first one.
> 
> Is there any way for the X server to recognize these as four different
> desktops, so I could, for example, open an Xterm explicitly on a given
> desktop, for example:
> 
>    xterm -display localhost:0.1

>From reading the description of how that works, I would guess you should be
able to start an instance of the X server with a different display number in
each virtual desktop.

e.g. in your 2nd desktop, start X (however you do that) with :1, and then use
xterm -display :1 to connect to it.

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Jon TURNEY
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Re: X server with multiple Windows desktops

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:

> On 16/11/2010 20:37, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:

>> Is there any way for the X server to recognize these as four different
>> desktops, so I could, for example, open an Xterm explicitly on a given
>> desktop, for example:
>>
>>    xterm -display localhost:0.1
>
> From reading the description of how that works, I would guess you should be
> able to start an instance of the X server with a different display number in
> each virtual desktop.
>
> e.g. in your 2nd desktop, start X (however you do that) with :1, and then use
> xterm -display :1 to connect to it.

Thanks, Jon.  I switched to VirtuaWin which behaves much better.

- Jim

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