Re: FVWM: Move windows to a new desk preserving pages

2021-03-01 Thread Tapia, Ron
Hi Ethan, In the menu, I have an off by one error. Desks should be numbered starting from zero, not one. There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. Cheers, Ron From: Tapia, Ron Sent: Monday,

Re: FVWM: Move windows to a new desk preserving pages

2021-03-01 Thread Tapia, Ron
Hi Ethan, It sounds like a solution that just moves one window to another desktop while preserving the page would work for you. I think that the config below does what you want. This function lets you pick a window and send it to a desktop. It appears to preserve the page: DestroyFunc mdesk

Re: FVWM: Move windows to a new desk preserving pages

2021-03-01 Thread Ethan Raynor
Hi Dominik, On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 1:51 PM Dominik Vogt wrote: > Can you please be more precise? You're mixing the terms page, > desk and screen which are all differet things. Could you give an > example of the workflow? It's hard for me to imagine what you're > actually doig that could requir

Re: FVWM: Move windows to a new desk preserving pages

2021-03-01 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021, Ethan Raynor wrote: i quite often find myself wanting to move windows between desks to suit my workflow. what i would like is the ability to move windows as they are on desk X to screen Y without them losing which page they are on. I usually have 7 desks (not that I use t

Re: FVWM: Move windows to a new desk preserving pages

2021-03-01 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 01:40:17PM +, Ethan Raynor wrote: > hi Dominik, > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 9:45 AM Dominik Vogt wrote: > > What is the actual use case for this? > > i quite often find myself wanting to move windows between desks to > suit my workflow. what i would like is the ability

Re: FVWM: Move windows to a new desk preserving pages

2021-03-01 Thread Ethan Raynor
hi Dominik, On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 9:45 AM Dominik Vogt wrote: > What is the actual use case for this? i quite often find myself wanting to move windows between desks to suit my workflow. what i would like is the ability to move windows as they are on desk X to screen Y without them losing whic

Re: FVWM: Move windows to a new desk preserving pages

2021-03-01 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 12:31:19AM +, Ethan Raynor wrote: > I'm trying to understand how I can move all windows from desk X to > desk Y without losing where the windows on desk X are in terms of > their pages. > > I know I can do something like: > > All (Desk 1) MoveToDesk 2 > > But all this do