Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:39:16 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox starts up always in the first virtual screen in XFCE Message-ID: <20060831233916.0a0cfcaf@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1157027405.44f6d64d1b27f@www.domainfactory-webmail.de> References: <1157027405.44f6d64d1b27f@www.domainfactory-webmail.de>
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:30:05 +0200
Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de> wrote:
> I upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1 from 5.4 with all ports updated to the latest about
> one week ago. My desktop is XFCE, which is configured with 6 virtual screens.
> If you start an X program, its window will pop up in the screen that was
> active at that time. This works for all programs except for firefox. The
> Firefox window will always pop up in the first virtual screen. I can then
> move it wherever I desire, so that's just an inconvenience, but its a clear
> regression to the behaviour before I upgraded to 6.1.
sounds like a session manager saved "firefox on this desktop"... not sure which
one would do it when you start it up (usually they restore programs on
startup...)
again, i could be completely wrong :D
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