Am 29.01.2012 11:38, schrieb Jasper St. Pierre: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:32 AM, informalibre montceau > <[email protected]> wrote: >> - Better management of evolution and rhythmbox as background >> Problem: >> There are often many applications already launched and the two applications >> should not remain there permanently open and takes up space. Yet we need to >> open evolution to see if we receive new messages. And we keep open rhythmbox >> since we're listening to music >> Solution: >> Ensure that Evolution is running in the background but without a GUI and / >> or have a daemon that checks the mail. For rhythmbox, make music playback or >> radio is being transferred to a body that plays the songs, Rhythmbox will >> close but in this instance the notification area will continue to play >> songs. > > Put them on their own workspace and ignore them?
This is the only proposed way of using the shell that I can't really accept. I used to put Thunderbird and Banshee on the last/lowermost desktop and tried to ignore them. That lead to me first putting windows on the first four desktops to be able to park the named applications on the 5th one without having to switch over that desktop all the time. (Having 4 desktops in a row for regular use.) Now I cannot take advantage of dynamic creation of new desktops anymore. The new approach I use since a few weeks is starting TB/Banshee first when I login and using the auto move windows extension to have firefox and pidgin (most used applications on my "default" desktop) on the second desktop, which acts as the main one then. Therefore, I can still have the shell append new desktops without distracting me by switching over desktops I'm supposed to ignore. Both approaches are more workaround than elegant, so I would love a way to have applications run headless. Maybe with some kind of special indication in the dash that they are running, everything else can be dealt with using normal notifications. Marcel _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
